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Silenced by pandemic, Met Opera to make brief return The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 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 st...

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 direct...

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 1...

The Met has not performed since March 11, 2020, because of the pandemic, canceling 276 performances plus an international tour scheduled for next month.

April 23, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Spring — Following Ernie Tate’s death on February 5, 2021, numerous tributes have been published highlighting his lifelong commitment to socialism and remarkable contribution to the anti-war movement. (Links are provided below.) His two-volume memoir, Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s, provides a detailed account of this work. Ernie’s role as a union leader has received less attention. Working at Toronto Hydro from 1977 to 1995, he served as an Executive Board member and eventually as Vice-...