As the Met Orchestra enters its tenth month without salary, we fear that a Cultural Great Depression awaits society on the other side unless there is significant support for the artists who give the world hope and inspiration. The members of the Met Orchestra deserve the dignity which has been afforded to all other musicians...
As the MET Orchestra Musicians & the Met Chorus Artists turn the page to 2021, we are pleased to begin with a special fundraising matching campaign, to support our community of artists in these unprecedented times.Thanks to a generous contribution from Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and his life partner Pierre Tourville, any donations from January...
We have now been unpaid for 10 months and counting. The Metropolitan Opera is an outlier in our industry; every other major orchestra has been compensated since the very beginning of the pandemic. Met management is using the pandemic opportunistically. They are not seeking a short-term crisis-plan to balance out pandemic circumstances. They are seeking...
Please mark your calendars for the next performance in our MET Orchestra Spotlight Series, Warmth from Other Suns, premiering on Sunday, January 17 at 3pm EST. Hosted by bass-baritone Eric Owens, this program of woodwinds, strings and piano features new works by Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw and Sphinx 2021 Medal of Excellence winner Carlos Simon as well as operatic...
We are very grateful to SupportNYC and ARKAI for producing this beautiful video of our players performing at Reed Yeboah Fine Violins. With their mission of lifting up small businesses like Julie Reed Yeboah’s wonderful fine instrument shop and musicians like the MET Orchestra Musicians, SupportNYC is doing vital work during these challenging times. Thanks...
The musicians of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, represented by AFM Local 802, stand in solidarity with our IATSE Local 1 stagehand colleagues who have been locked out of The Metropolitan Opera, a particularly callous action taken by Met management in this unprecedented pandemic. While our union contracts are separate, we are faced with this in...
We love this article by the San Diego Symphony about Giving. With Giving Tuesday right around the corner, we wanted to share their insights with you. This entire post is their content. Please, visit their page for the original article. Thank you to them for mapping out this information so concisely and clearly. Discuss your...
photo credit: Joan Argemí With 30% of the MET Orchestra Musicians unable to live in New York City anymore, due to having not received salaries from The Metropolitan Opera for almost 8 months, the situation is becoming more and more devastating each day. These world-class musicians inspire the communities they live in through teaching, mentorship...
Join the MET Orchestra Musicians NOV 22 at 3PM EST for the opening concert of their NEW Spotlight Series. Tickets available here. The program will include the beloved opera aria Nessun Dorma from Puccini’s Turandot arranged for four horns, Tchaikovsky’s tour de force for string sextet, Souvenir de Florence and the genre-bending string quartet Strum...
Please enjoy the next video in our series of masterclasses given by MET Orchestra Musicians in collaboration with Festival Napa Valley. Today’s class features Evan Epifanio, principal bassoon and Anton Rist, principal clarinet. This masterclass series was founded and organized by MET Orchestra Musician Stephanie Mortimore, principal piccolo as a tribute to Joel Revzen who...
