Monday’s opening night performance of Eugene Onegin was seen by thousands of people in the house, on Lincoln Plaza and in Times Square. Even more listened at home on Sirius XM and through a free web stream on the Met’s site. Here are some behind-the-scenes and red carpet photos from the gala!
- Setting up for the simulcast in Times Square
- A’mare Stoudemire with his wife Alexis
- Bryan Batt
- Patricia Clarkson
- Isabel Leonard and Sondra Radvanovsky
- Mischa Barton
- Director of The Nose, William Kentridge
- Dan Stevens
- LGBT rights supporters handed out flyers
- Patrick Stewart and his wife Sunny Ozell
- Placido Domingo and his family
- Heather Graham
- Simulcast hosts Nico Muhly and Alice Coote interview Sondra Radvanovsky
- Anthony Roth Costanzo and designer Austin Scarlett
- Diane Kruger
- Nico Muhly interviews Patti Smith
- Kyle Van Schoonhoven, winner of our Facebook “Win the One You Love” contest
- Radio host Margaret Juntwait interviews Rosalind Elias and Lucine Amara about the 1957 opening night of Eugene Onegin
- A view of the crowd outside from above the chandeliers
- Alice Coote interviews Placido Domingo during the first intermission
- The crowd in Times Square
- The cast takes a bow from the Met balcony at the end of the performance