The Metropolitan Opera is holding a weekly draw for prime seats in the Orchestra and Grand Tier for $25 throughout this season. Either I was extraordinarily lucky or, more likely, not too many people entered last Monday (Martin Luther King Jr. day) because I won. And on Saturday night Sofie and I took ourselves off to the Lincoln Center for a marvelous evening watching Rigoletto.

Our excursions to the Met are normally reserved for visiting parents, so it was lovely to be able to go along on a whim and to still have enough money left over to splurge on a pre-theater Greek meal at Kefi. All in all, a wonderful evening, made even more memorable by the sight of a young Asian guy going down on one knee at the top of the lobby staircase during the intermission and prompting a round of applause from people gathered on the balconies above and below. The only problem now is how to get this song out of my head.

Weekend Ticket Drawing (Met Opera)

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