Over the last few weeks, the pitch of drama has been high at one of the U.S.’s most-storied cultural institutions—the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Usually, the drama at the opera house only takes place on stage, but in this case the offstage conflict is overshadowing—and potentially derailing—the operas themselves.
The Met’s management and 16 bargaining units, representing various groups of workers from ticket takers to singers to security guards, have been at odds in a very public way over management’s proposal to cut the Met’s labor costs in order to deal with the institution’s financial struggles. With only about a month and a half until the Met’s new season opens, the pressure is on to negotiate and avoid a lockout.
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