Mayor Mamdani has created a new program—70,000 free tickets, every year, for students, citizens, residents, workers, immigrants, toddlers, grandparents, homeless people, anyone and everyone who lives in the city, to go to the Metropolitan Opera. To see La Boheme, Macbeth, Cosa Fan Tutte, Tosca, The Magic Flute, Samson and Delilah, Aida, Parsifal, and more. Sign up here. While you’re waiting to sign into the lottery, savor these words of John Maynard Keynes, writing at the height of World War II, reminding us what the idea of a “commonwealth” really means: I should like to see that war memorials of this tragic struggle take the shape of an enrichment of the civic life of every great centre of population. Why should […]