Some reviewers criticized the Mozart Bicentennial as an unsuccessful attempt to spread the composer's wealth among the Lincoln Center constituents and visiting performers.
The changes, which include weighted voting, would give the Met, as Lincoln Center's largest constituent, the biggest voice on the board of the project corporation and could win final approval as early as today, center constituents said yesterday.
In subsequent visits to senior centers, constituents expressed worry their Medicare costs would increase or that they would no longer be able to see their doctors.
The center's constituent groups, which are sharing the cost, have $100 million left to raise.
Then again, Mr. Noble has now permanently uprooted the company from the Barbican Center, whose constituent theaters were specially built for it in 1980.
Leaders of the center's constituent organizations who attended said afterward that they discussed issues raised by the Met, including how the huge project would be shaped and administered.
Few of the center's constituents agree with us, but we are pleased that you do agree.
Each of the center's 12 constituent groups -- including the Metropolitan Opera, the Film Society and the Juilliard School -- have agreements governing their relationships with Lincoln Center, the landlord.
But the center and its constituent organizations do what they can with the smaller, more malleable rooms in the Rose Building, which looms over the Juilliard School.
The special pressures of the redevelopment project "certainly played a part," she said, although it is technically an effort by the center's 11 constituent arts groups rather than the center itself.
They are interviewing 10 of the center's 12 constituent groups -- all except Jazz at Lincoln Center, which is building its own $115 million home at Columbus Circle, and the Library for the Performing Arts, which just completed a $30 million renovation -- about their needs.
