They are being asked to work a lot more for less money. It isn't fair. But the same rule affects hospitals, clinics and garbage collection. In those areas, you can patch up the damage when the strikes are over. In a theater, you can't. The artistic losses are much higher than the financial losses. And there can be no compensation for that.

At the same time, it is a cheap way to achieve maximum effect for the union. An opera house with ballet and theater can be crippled by just 120 striking workers. Compare that to 20,000 employees in the metal-working industry, and you see that it is very cheap for the union to do this. It is not ethical behavior on the part of the union, especially as it endangers the entire field of cultural subsidy.

God knows how it will all end. It's an exceptional crisis for Germany's opera houses. There have never been such long strikes here before. If the strikes continue until July, we will have major losses. The damage will be permanent.

Such a bonus is nothing other than a waste of money and that runs against their fiduciary duty.

Such a bonus is nothing other than a waste of money and that runs against their fiduciary duty. There was no incentive to management as a result of the payments.

We can't continue to invest millions of dollars of our own money into the building and expect everything to work out. It needs to be a community effort, not just a Buccaneer effort.