let's talk to peter gelb, helping put this all on, the general manager of the metropolitan opera. hear the enthusiasm in our voice, but i can't even think about the herculean task of getting it off the ground and getting it done safely. peter: first off, thank you for speaking so enthusiastically about that. we need people to be talking about us. that's why we are so happy to see the opening of the met with this opera, by the first black composer, terence blanchard, to have a work on the stage of the met. it is the perfect way to engineer our comeback. we have many challenges. we were closed for many months, like broadway, and we are the largest nonprofit performing arts company in the united states, around the world. we have 3000 employees and it was extremely difficult to keep the company alive during the shutdown. the challenges we face today are many. a nonprofit organization, when we sell out, we are losing money, so we have to rely on the generosity of donors, our expenses are very high because we have these covid precautions, with the met being a fully vaccinated house, we