据说社鲁门总统的办公桌上有这样的座右铭:“责任止于此”(The buck stops here)。我也可以把这句话放置在我的办公桌上。大都会每个与艺术运营相关的决定,都是由我做出的——的确,事无巨细,所有演员的遴选,直至《玫瑰骑士》里的孤儿丙,都由我来定夺——我同样担负起了日常监督的重任。那些日子我常说,歌剧院需要激进民主式的管理,由一个人负总责。没有在歌剧院工作过的人,无法想象这里出错事情之多,很多情况都需要总经理出面调停,就像我在1950年代的 It is said that there is such a motto on President’s Desk: “The Buck stops here.” I can also put this sentence on my desk. Every metropolitan decision to make about art operations is made by me - indeed, everything is fine, the selection of all the actors, until the orphan C in “The Rose Rider” is decided by me - and I too To assume the day-to-day supervision of the task. I used to say in those days that the opera house needed radical democratization and was held accountable by one person. People who have not worked in the opera house, can not imagine many mistakes here, in many cases need to mediate the general manager, just as I in the 1950’s