New Yorker contributor James B. Stewart discusses the conflict that has defined the past year at the struggling Metropolitan Opera"which peaked this past summer, with a narrowly avoided lockout after labor talks between the orchestra, chorus, stagehands, and Peter Gelb, the opera's general manager, stalled. His article "A Fight at the Opera," which appears in the March 23, 2015 issue of the magazine.
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM on March 23, 2015