Quick Takes
Met declares season on schedule after latest union agreement
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The opera house is on track to premiere its 2014-15 season as scheduled, with public radio broadcasts to follow.
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Met reaches agreement with major unions, hopes to avoid lockout
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The Metropolitan Opera has reached a tentative agreement with two of the three bargaining units representing its workers.
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Labor strife at Met could leave hole in classical stations’ schedules
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A lockout at the New York opera house would force more than 300 stations to make tough choices.
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Stations’ concerns prompt Metropolitan Opera to sanitize airing of Die Fledermaus
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The Metropolitan Opera agreed to tone down indecent language in its Jan. 11 broadcast after radio station leaders warned that they would not risk airing a performance that would violate FCC standards. Met staffers informed stations in a Jan. 7 email that Saturday’s broadcast of Die Fledermaus would contain profanity. An off-stage tenor, singing in his jail cell, would prompt a jailer to answer, “No opera!
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Listeners who campaigned for classical music on WFIU put own interests over public service
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Classical music is a big part of the cultural fabric of Bloomington. But WFIU wasn’t aiming to eliminate local music programming.
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Don’t mess with the Met: WFIU reverses course on weekend schedule
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An outcry from listeners prompted WFIU-FM in Bloomington, Ind., to announce Aug. 13 that it would restore classical programming to its schedule, less than two months after taking much of the music off its airwaves.
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Media veteran brings wary revolution to a fortress of tradition
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In the 1980s, Peter Gelb produced 25 Metropolitan Opera broadcasts for PBS. Now, as the Met’s general manager, he runs the red-carpeted center of the opera world. The first media guy to run the hallowed New York institution has begun an ambitious but carefully modulated makeover of the Met. He’s putting its operas on more media platforms than ever before but using electronic media to reproduce the gilded in-theater experience. He’s bringing in a new breed of directors for fresh staging but relying largely on the beloved music of the past.Hired two years ago, Gelb was off to a running start in August when he took charge.