Free Met Opera Events – from the NY Times
Free tickets for the Metropolitan Opera’s final dress rehearsal of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” on Thursday will be available for the first time online (metopera.org) and by telephone: (212) 362-6000. The rehearsal begins at 11 a.m., and the doors open at 10. Tickets are limited to two a person. Once a reservation has been made, operagoers have until 8 p.m. Tuesday to pick up the tickets at the box office. The opening-night performance, at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 24, will be relayed to four screens in Times Square, where 1,500 seats will be available and additional standing room will be provided. Admission is free, and no tickets are required. At Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center, where 2,000 free seats will be available, the performance also will be relayed, but tickets, limited to two a person on a first-come-first-served basis, will be required. They will be at the Met box office beginning at noon on Sept. 23.
(This info is from the Friday Sept. 14 issue of the NY Times, in an article called “Arts, Briefly”)