Members of the Paris Opera's orchestra play an improvised open-air concert at the city's Place de la Bastille square to protest the government's proposed pension reform, which affects the state-employed musicians' special status in Paris, France, December 31, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
PARIS (Reuters) - The French capital's Opera Bastille has been silent for nearly a month because its orchestra is on strike, but on Tuesday the musicians performed on the steps of the opera house to bring attention to their anger at planned pension reforms.
The orchestra's string section, out on strike as part of a nationwide protest against the pension plans, performed pieces including Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suite next to a banner reading "Paris Opera on strike".
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