Peter Gelb, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, has weathered a parade of challenges including stormy union negotiations, serious financial constraints, a two-year covid shutdown, the firing of his star soprano Anna Netrebko because of her support for Putin, and a devastating cyber-attack which crippled his box office for nine days. Notwithstanding, he tells Jim Zirin about his survival mode planning a revitalized season of old favorites and money-making new productions.