Mamdani’s 70,000 Free Seats At The Met

Good Morning,Beginning this month, the Metropolitan Opera will give away 10,000 tickets a month — about one in ten seats for the season — to New Yorkers who haven’t set foot inside since 2019, under Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new “Opera for All” partnership. He tied it to Fiorello La Guardia’s 1943 “People’s Opera,” which sold seats for 75 cents (The New York Times).Mark Swed filed his last column as the Los Angeles Times‘ classical c