MUSIC

Management-labor problems continue to spring up among the world’s orchestras. Such is the case in Cardiff, Wales, where the entire Welsh National Opera orchestra has been fired for wearing casual clothes during performances. The orchestra members wore their street clothes as a protest in a pay dispute with management. “You have, by your actions, placed yourselves in breach of your terms of contract of employment, which is terminated with immediate effect,” the orchestra’s managing director told the 65-member group in a letter leaked to the British press. The mass firings could postpone the opera’s opening next month.