The Met on the edge

James B. Stewart, writing for The New Yorker, examines in depth the crises in finance, artistic direction and labor-management-board relations that almost led to a shutdown last fall at the Metropolitan Opera, and continue to plague the largest performing-arts institution in the U.S. A very sobering read:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/23/a-fight-at-the-opera