The New York Metropolitan Opera will only let in vaccinated viewers in the coming season.
the essentials in brief
- The audience and the artist must show full vaccination protection.
Both the audience and the performing artists must show full vaccination protection, as the house announced on Tuesday amid the debate about compulsory vaccination in the United States. “The Met will be a fully vaccinated house,” said the Met in an email to its visitors.
Children under the age of twelve – who are currently not allowed to be vaccinated – are not allowed to enter the house, even if the adults accompanying them are vaccinated. The Met employs more than 3,000 people, making it the largest performing arts organization in the United States. It has been closed since the pandemic began in March 2020. The management hopes to be able to reopen at the end of September.
In view of the increasing corona numbers due to the delta variant and a faltering vaccination campaign, a debate about mandatory vaccination has arisen in the USA. The city of New York and the state of California announced that public sector workers will either have to get vaccinated or take weekly corona tests. The US Department of Veterans Affairs was the first federal agency to require health workers to be vaccinated.
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