Tag: Metropolitan Opera
Met declares season on schedule after latest union agreement
The opera house is on track to premiere its 2014-15 season as scheduled, with public radio broadcasts to follow.Met reaches agreement with major unions, hopes to avoid lockout
The Metropolitan Opera has reached a tentative agreement with two of the three bargaining units representing its workers.Labor strife at Met could leave hole in classical stations’ schedules
A lockout at the New York opera house would force more than 300 stations to make tough choices.Stations’ concerns prompt Metropolitan Opera to sanitize airing of Die Fledermaus
The Metropolitan Opera agreed to tone down indecent language in its Jan. 11 broadcast after radio station leaders warned that they would ...Listeners who campaigned for classical music on WFIU put own interests over public service
Classical music is a big part of the cultural fabric of Bloomington. But WFIU wasn’t aiming to eliminate local music programming.Don’t mess with the Met: WFIU reverses course on weekend schedule
An outcry from listeners prompted WFIU-FM in Bloomington, Ind., to announce Aug. 13 that it would restore classical programming to its schedule, ...Media veteran brings wary revolution to a fortress of tradition
In the 1980s, Peter Gelb produced 25 Metropolitan Opera broadcasts for PBS. Now, as the Met’s general manager, he runs the red-carpeted ...
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