“When I came to the Met, it was the most attractive job in the country,” Noyes said. Joel Noyes, assistant principal cello of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, told The Post on Sunday that there has not been any constructive dialogue between his group and management on the situation. “The Metropolitan Opera is an outlier in our industry every other major orchestra has been compensated since the very beginning of the pandemic.” “We have now been unpaid for 10 months and counting,” the group said in a statement. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Committee, a group of workers, said management is using the pandemic to make opportunistic long-term cuts at their expense. “Let’s be clear: hiring non-Met musicians under the banner of the Metropolitan Opera and outsourcing the orchestra’s work is an attack on the Met as an artistic institution and an insult to the very artists who work there.” “It is artistic malpractice and unacceptable that non-Met musicians are being hired to perform under the banner of the Metropolitan Opera,” Adam Krauthamer, president of the musicians union AFM Local 802, wrote in a statement. The famed establishment’s alleged miserly antics included using budget musicians for the Met’s pay-per-view New Year’s Eve gala - without any mention of the symphonic skimping included in the literature supplied to its donors and ticket-holders. The Metropolitan Opera is using the pandemic as an excuse to furlough its top musicians - and then fill their spots in the pit with cheap non-union talent, critics say. Sex accuser of late Met Opera maestro James Levine sues for $25M Met returns with first work by a Black composer in its history Russian musicians don’t deserve cancellation for Putin’s crimesĪnna Netrebko, Russian soprano with ties to Putin, out at Metropolitan Opera

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