The Metropolitan Opera opened labor talks on Tuesday with the Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the union that represents the stagehands who build, move and light the sets and props at the opera house.
The unions, who have seen the nature of their work change as the company has had to ensure that its sets, lighting and costumes are camera-ready for the Met’s “Live in HD” simulcasts to movie theaters around the world, argue that the company should seek savings elsewhere in a budget that has grown to more than $300 million a year, and suggested that the company had been mounting too many costly new productions each year.
Labor Talks Begin at Metropolitan Opera
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