Sena Jurinac Never Sang at the Met. The Reason Is a Story About Power.

Parterre is running a piece this week on Sena Jurinac, the Viennese soprano who became one of the defining Mozart and Strauss interpreters of the postwar era, with a particular claim to the role of the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos. She never sang at the Metropolitan Opera. That is not an accident. It is a window into how the Met's mid-century politics shaped the careers of singers who did not fit Rudolf Bing's specific vision.