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What must it be like to live in a city with two major opera companies, one of which is among the best known in the world? Well, judging from these photos from the New York Times (some of which depict  the spill-over audience) from last night’s sold-out season opening at the Metropolitan Opera, it must be pretty good. The Met presented Lucia di Lammermoor in a new production (conducted by James Levine!) which starred Natalie Dessay. Since the Met, large as it is, cannot hold all the people who want to see such a performance, screens were set up at Lincoln Center and Times Square.

Filed under: Music on September 25th, 2007