Monday on the NewsHour: The Metropolitan Opera's Grand Revitalization Act

Grand opera doesn't get any grander than at New York's "Metropolitan Opera":http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/. It's still the place for the greatest singers and the biggest spectacles, like the one produced by the small army that filled the stage for a recent performance of "Aida." But behind the scenes -- like everywhere else in the classical music world -- there is the looming question of how to keep opera not just alive, but actually thriving. According to a new study by the "National Endowment for the Arts":http://www.nea.gov/, overall opera attendance in the United States is down some 34 percent just in the last six years. Monday on the NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown reports from the Metropolitan Opera:   After the jump, you can watch more of Jeffrey Brown's conversations with Renee Fleming and Bart Sher, and performances by the Metropolitan Opera: