"This one's for you": The Met responds after Timothe Chalamet claims "no one cares" about ballet and opera [View all]

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The Metropolitan Opera issued a response on TikTok addressing Timothée Chalamet’s recent remarks panning ballet and the opera as irrelevant. In a Variety conversation with Matthew McConaughey, the Wonka star managed to anger high art lovers everywhere with his dismissive comments.

Chalamet loses more than 14 cents
During the mutual interview with McConaughey, the discussion turned to serious art vs. pure entertainment value, with Chalamet saying he lands somewhere “in the middle.” While he wants to keep the theater alive, he’s not as into forms of “high art” as some.

“I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera where it’s like, ‘Hey! Keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore,'” he said. “All respect to the ballet and opera people out there. I just lost 14 cents in viewership.”

What he lost seems to be the respect of many ballet and opera enjoyers. Angry comments soon appeared on Variety’s Instagram post highlighting the clip.

“It’s because of opera that I had the patience to sit through the first part of Dune when absolutely nothing happened, Tim,” wrote @katiefrancess.

As word spread to the high art community, responses from ballerinas and opera singers started rolling in. On Thursday, The Met Opera responded with a TikTok video honoring everyone who works on these forms of art, including all those laboring in the background to make the show happen.

“All respect to the opera (and ballet) people out there,” the caption reads.



Multiple famous ballet dancers and opera singers responded alongside The Met.