The piano man had begun work on his first ever opera, but he’s composing it in French, and his would-be commissioners at the Met and Lincoln Center prefer their new operas in English. That’s why he’s looking to find it a new home — that, and because the Met can’t even fit it in ’til 2014. Quoth Rufus: “I’m an impatient pop star.”
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the quotation marks in this are destroying my brain.
Those Met people should be bowing to him and catering to his every whim.
They’re probably just realizing the mistake they made in the first place.