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No Country for Old Men: Met Opera General Manager Peter Gelb Takes Pay Cut In Hopes of Curbing Company's Downward Spiral

The Met Opera has hit some hard times, and those times just continue to fall closer to the floor as the company seeks concession from its workers amid labor talks and contract negotiations.
By Ian Holubiak

  • BBC Supersize on Classical Music

    It was always likely that the BBC's still-quite-new Director General -- former Royal Opera House chief Tony Hall -- would prioritise music. And today the corporation announced a slew of initiatives designed to put music back at (or close to) the center of the Beeb's world. Most eye-catching of these is a nationwide educational initiative called "Ten Pieces"
    By Classicalite Newsdesk

  • 'The Zombies: A Musical' Opens Off-Broadway This Week

    The world premiere musical comedy promises to be a feast, if not of brains, then of camp horror. When The Zombies: A Musical, now in previews, opens Off-Broadway at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater this Thursday, June 19, it may or may not prove a feast for your brain.
    By Jon Sobel