Protesters, many of them Jewish activists, demonstrate as people arrive for the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera season at Lincoln Center on September 22, 2014 in New York City.

Conflict and Contention at the Met

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 20, 2015

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. Stewart's article “A Fight at the Opera” appears in the March 23, 2015 issue of the magazine.

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