The Metropolitan Opera Guild, the nonprofit organization that since 1935 has provided financial and other support for the New York opera company, will cease to exist as an independent entity and will shut down its monthly magazine, Opera News. The guild’s leaders said that “it is no longer economically viable for us to continue in our current form.”
The guild, which, like the Met itself, has seen a drop in fundraising proceeds since the onset of the Covid pandemic, “will be reclassified as a supporting organization under the Met; it will no longer operate as an independent nonprofit. The guild said that it would provide severance to its 20 employees, and that it expects the Met to hire some of them. Its board members will be offered positions on the Met’s board,” while Opera News’ US coverage will be absorbed by the British magazine Opera, The New York Times’ Javier C. Hernández reports:
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