NEW YORK -- The show will go on - for now. The Metropolitan Opera and unions representing its singers, dancers and musicians agreed Saturday to halt labor negotiations for a week and avoid a ...

Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb told the BBC that the company will “face a bankruptcy situation in two or three years” if it does not make major reductions in its spending on wages.

The head of the Metropolitan Opera warned musicians, singers, stagehands, and other employees Wednesday to prepare for a lockout by management if they do not agree on a new contract by the end of the ...