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FILE - This March 12, 2020, file photo shows Josie Robertson Plaza in front of The Metropolitan Opera house, background center, at Lincoln Center in New York. On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, the Metropolitan Opera reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract with the American Guild of Musical Artists, one of three major labor deals needed for the New York company to resume performances in September. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File) May 11, 2021 - 6:59 PM
NEW YORK (AP) â The Metropolitan Opera reached a tentative agreement Tuesday on a four-year contract with the American Guild of Musical Artists, one of three major labor deals needed for the New York company to resume performances in September.
Silenced by pandemic, Met Opera to make brief return
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FILE - This March 12, 2020, file photo shows Josie Robertson Plaza in front of The Metropolitan Opera house, background center, at Lincoln Center in New York. On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, the Metropolitan Opera reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract with the American Guild of Musical Artists, one of three major labor deals needed for the New York company to resume performances in September.Kathy Willens/AP
NEW YORK (AP) Silenced for 14 months by the pandemic and dealing with labor strife, the Metropolitan Opera will make a brief return Sunday.
Met Opera Announces Its First Live Concerts Since Shutdown
Despite ongoing labor tensions, members of the company’s orchestra and chorus will perform with soloists and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
The concerts on Sunday will be the first in-person performances under the Met’s brand since March 11, 2020.Credit.Amr Alfiky/The New York Times
May 12, 2021Updated 1:22 p.m. ET
The Metropolitan Opera will perform again for a live audience, 430 days after the coronavirus shut down its theater.
Members of the company’s orchestra and chorus, joined by prominent soloists and led by its music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will give two concerts at the Knockdown Center in Queens on Sunday, the Met announced on Wednesday. The concerts will go on despite continuing labor tensions at the Met, which have threatened the intended reopening of its Lincoln Center home in September.
Met Opera Settles Contract Disputes With Performers As Stagehands Protest Looms
arrow THE GREEN on May 10, 2021 Jen Chung / Gothamist
The Metropolitan Opera has agreed to a new contract with one of the unions representing performers, while the stagehands’ union is planning a protest Thursday outside Lincoln Center after being locked out of their contract negotiations.
The largest performing arts organization in the country with more than 3,000 staffers, the Met cancelled its 2020-2021 season as the pandemic surged in New York City and has not performed since March 11th, 2020. The institution furloughed all union members about a week later including the opera’s musicians, chorus singers, and stagehands.
The Met has not performed since March 11, 2020, because of the pandemic, canceling 276 performances plus an international tour scheduled for next month.