NYC Metropolitan Opera Won’t Open For Another Year

The New York Times reports:

The Metropolitan Opera announced Wednesday that the still-untamed coronavirus pandemic has forced it to cancel its entire 2020-21 season, prolonging one of the gravest crises it has faced in its 137-year history and keeping it dark until next September.

The decision is likely to send ripples of concern through New York and the rest of the country, as Broadway theaters, symphony halls, rock venues, comedy clubs, dance spaces and other live arts institutions grapple with the question of when it will be safe again to perform indoors.

Far from being a gilded outlier, the Met, the nation’s largest performing arts organization, may well prove to be a bellwether.

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