Met Opera: An Opening Night Of Champagne, Tchaikovsky, And Protest

The Metropolitan Opera opened its new season last night with a champagne gala inside the house, a packed Lincoln Center Plaza to watch on TV outside, and angry protests both inside and outside against Russia's oppression of gay citizens while Russian artists headlined the Met's new production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. It was a lively night at the opera. Fueling the protest was the fact that the star of this production, the soprano Anna Netrebko, and the evening's conductor, Valery Gergiev,...