A Register series documented low pay, harsh conditions at the Des Moines Metro Opera. Now the opera says it's adding full-time staff and overtime pay.
NEW YORK -- The show will go on - for now. The Metropolitan Opera and unions representing its singers, dancers and musicians agreed Saturday to halt labor negotiations for a week and avoid a ...
Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb told the BBC that the company will “face a bankruptcy situation in two or three years” if it does not make major reductions in its spending on wages.