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The Met Operaâs Musicians, Unpaid Since April, Are Struggling
About 40 percent of the players have left the New York area, and a tenth have retired. Now the Met is seeking long-term pay cuts, and offering them partial pay if they come to the bargaining table.
The musicians in the Metropolitan Operaâs orchestra, seen here at a rehearsal in 2017, have not been paid for nearly a year. Credit.Karsten Moran for The New York Times
Published March 15, 2021Updated March 17, 2021
As the months without a paycheck wore on, Joel Noyes, a 41-year-old cellist with the Metropolitan Opera, realized that in order to keep making his mortgage payments he would have to sell one of his most valuable possessions: his 19th-century Russian bow. He reluctantly switched back to the inferior one he had used as a child.
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra musicians sign an early contract extension with no pay cut Nailing that down is seen as crucial to the orchestra s pandemic recovery plan. March 12, 2021 12:01am Text size Copy shortlink:
Musicians in the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra have agreed to a two-year contract extension that unlike other orchestra agreements inked during the pandemic does not include a pay cut.
The pact, announced this week, was passed unanimously by the musicians, the SPCO board and the board of the American Federation of Musicians Local 30-73 some 15 months before the current contract was set to expire. It will maintain musicians pay, benefits and work rules from July 2022 until July 2024.
Adam Krauthamer, president of the New York City musicians’ union (Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians) has released a statement criticizing New York s Open Culture initiative, which does not require that performers be paid when they’re asked to perform.