One part of the new agreement with the orchestra calls for the creation of an annual chamber music series of six concerts at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, also beginning this fall, with corresponding performances as part of Carnegie’s Citywide program of free concerts. While the economic details of the new deal with the orchestra are not being provided, there is now a clearer path to the opening of the Met’s 2021–22 season on September 27 with the scheduled Met premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which will be the first opera to appear on the Met’s stage in eighteen months. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct the Met Orchestra and Chorus, joined by soloists soprano Ying Fang and mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves. 2, “Resurrection,” to take place in Damrosch Park at 8:00pm ET on Saturday, September 4, and Sunday, September 5. To commemorate the occasion, the Met has announced two free, pre-season performances of Mahler’s Symphony No.
New York, NY (August 24, 2021)-A new collective bargaining agreement between the Metropolitan Opera and its orchestra, the last of the Met’s three largest unions to reach an agreement, was ratified today. Here’s the heavily-spun line from the Gelb machine. It remains to be seen how many turn up for work next Monday. The musicians wanted compensation for a year without pay, also unlikely.
Three to four percent is more likely, we hear. The Met had been demanding a 30 percent pay cut. Agreement was reached today, but the Met says ‘the economic details of the new deal with the orchestra are not being provided’, so it’s all smoke, mirrors and face-saving for the moment.
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