{"id":356280,"date":"2026-09-25T01:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356280\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T01:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:38:29","slug":"met-opera-to-give-away-70000-tickets-to-new-yorkers-how-to-enter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356280\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Opera To Give Away 70,000 Tickets To New Yorkers: How To Enter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPPER WEST SIDE, NY \u2014 New Yorkers can enter a lottery for free tickets to the Metropolitan Opera under a new city initiative that will give away 70,000 seats during the 2026\u201327 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Met will release 10,000 tickets each month through &#8220;Opera for All,&#8221; a partnership announced Thursday by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the opera company. Winners could see productions including Macbeth, Lincoln in the Bardo and La Boh\u00e8me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/upper-west-side-nyc\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The program is aimed at bringing new audiences to the Met at Lincoln Center. According to the city, any New Yorker who has not purchased a Met Opera ticket since 2019 can enter \u2014 including people who have attended a performance before. Tickets will be available in every section except standing room.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Art should not be reserved for those who can afford it,&#8221; Mamdani said in a statement. &#8220;Every New Yorker should have the opportunity to sit in these seats, hear these voices and experience this stage, no matter what&#8217;s in their bank account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New Yorkers can enter the monthly lottery <a href=\"https:\/\/on.nyc.gov\/opera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The city said it will also work with public schools, libraries, NYCHA, CUNY and other agencies to help distribute tickets.<\/p>\n<p>For questions, email Miranda.Levingston@Patch.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER WEST SIDE, NY \u2014 New Yorkers can enter a lottery for free tickets to the Metropolitan Opera&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-356280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}