$148,000 to plant poppies

In the ongoing skirmishing between the Metropolitan Opera and its employee unions over labor costs, the company has “pulled back the curtain” to detail costs of staging its $4.3 million production of Borodin’s “Prince Igor.” The Wall Street Journal’s Jennifer Maloney crunches some numbers:

http://online.wsj.com/articles/new-yorks-metropolitan-opera-opens-its-budget-curtain-1401416711

(via www.artsjournal.com)