The Blogspot of Beth Grosshans: New York Metropolitan Opera

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

The New York Metropolitan Opera's Contemporary Art Gallery

Dr. Beth Grosshans, a retired New Jersey-based clinical child psychologist, has spent 25 years working with families and children. After retiring, she wrote the 2008 parenting book, Beyond Time Out: From Chaos to Calm, which connected troubling childhood behavior to parents giving over too much of their power. Outside of her child psychology and writing careers, Beth Grosshans serves as an advisory board member for the New York Metropolitan Opera.

Best known for its stage productions, the Met Opera also features a contemporary art gallery in its south lobby. Named after advisory board director Marie Schwartz and her late husband, the Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met continues to showcase the Met Opera’s love of the visual arts. Exhibitions often feature work from renowned artists like Marc Chagall and David Hockney, while also fostering new collaborative opportunities for other artists.

Gallery Met admission is free for both Met ticket holders and the general public. To learn more about the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Arnold and Maria Schwartz Gallery Met, visit the organization online at metopera.org.

Monday, April 11, 2016

New York Metropolitan Opera Celebrates Opening of 2016 and 2017 Season

As a clinical child psychologist for more than 25 years, Dr. Beth Grosshans worked at her own private practice until 2011, when she took a leave of absence to travel and pursue other interests. Splitting her time between Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Manhattan, New York, Dr. Beth Grosshans sits on the advisory board at the New York Metropolitan Opera.

Founded in 1883, the Metropolitan Opera, also known as the Met, stages more than 200 opera performances conducted before more than 80,000 people on-site annually. In addition, millions more individuals experience the Met through new media distributions, including televised productions, DVDs, and satellite radio.

To commemorate the beginning of the 2016 and 2017 season, the Met will offer a gala premiere of its production “Tristan und Isolde” on September 26, 2016. This new production comes from Mariusz Trelinski, who took part in last season’s double bill of “Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle.” The cast features Nina Stemme as Isolde, Stuart Skeleton as Tristan, Ekaterina Gubanova as Brangane, and Rene Pape as King Marke. The production, which is slated to run from September 26 through October 27, also features Sir Simon Rattle as conductor in one of his rare Met appearances.

About Beth Grosshans

After establishing her Flemington, New Jersey-based private practice in 1994, licensed clinical psychologist Beth Grosshans, PhD, assisted children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families with psychological assessments and interventions for over 15 years. Concurrently she worked as a private consultant, providing clinical training and seminars on child development issues for faculty members at local schools. Also serving as an instructor for the Princeton Center for Teacher Education during this period, Dr. Beth Grosshans taught the course Child Development: Infant, Toddler, and through the Elementary Years at the Princeton Montessori School.

Since retiring from clinical practice, Dr. Beth Grosshans has concentrated on writing for and speaking to parents and educators about child development issues and discipline. She co-wrote the book Beyond Time-Out: From Chaos to Calm, in which she introduced the concept of imbalanced family power, contradicting prevailing child-centric notions of effective parenting and emphasizing the importance of exerting parental leadership and authority to prevent unruliness and anxiety in children.

Dr. Beth Grosshans received a BA in psychology from the University of Cincinnati and earned both an MA in psychology and a PhD in clinical child psychology from Ohio State University. Under Habib Davanloo, MD, she has also completed several intensive professional training courses in Intensive Short Term Dynamic Therapy. She is a retired member of the board of directors of the New Jersey Psychological Association Foundation and of the American Psychological Association.