Urging the Metropolitan Opera to compensate its artists “appropriately,” the company’s music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, sent a letter to leaders at the Met on Thursday saying that the many months its orchestra and chorus had gone without pay during the pandemic had become “increasingly unacceptable.

Met Opera’s music director decries musicians’ unpaid furlough

Forget red and blue (states). The theme of the Biden inauguration was “America United,” and the colour of the day seemed to be purple — the shade that bridges the divide by bringing both colours together (not to mention one of the original signature colours of the suffragists, whose dreams are now being realized with the first female vice president).

From Kamala Harris to Michelle Obama: Purple was a popular colour at the inauguration

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Met Opera’s music director decries musicians’ unpaid furlough

From Kamala Harris to Michelle Obama: Purple was a popular colour at the inauguration