Fitzgerald's "Gatsby" Being Adapted for the Metropolitan Opera

Staff -- Library Journal, 3/8/1999

Just when you think you've heard it all comes word that the New York Metropolitan Opera has commissioned an adaptation of Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece The Great Gatsby. The novel is being adapted by John Harbison and currently is scheduled to debut on December 20, with Jerry Hadley as the lovelorn Jay Gatsby and Dawn Upshaw as the woman with the "sound of money" in her voice, Daisy Buchanan.