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Time Warner Center, Columbus Circle, NY

Occasionally, before an opera or Lincoln Center event, I'll meet a friend here. We'll grab a snack or use the atrium as a convenient meeting place before walking together to the Met. Once, we actually stayed in the building and saw Bettye Lavette in a performance space upstairs. Unfortunately, that was also the night I suffered from food poisoning.

On this night, we were going to see the brilliant production of Peter Grimes or fortifying ourselves for the marathon staging of Tristan und Isolde. It might have been the night I watched people tell their stories of a perfect night with Bertolli to win a trip to Italy, or it might have been the night that rain threatened to flood the city streets. In one of my coat pockets I still have a coupon for a frozen pasta meal.

My opera season has ended. Tristan was the final production for which I had bought tickets. I had thought of getting tickets to Philip Glass's Satyagraha but lost momentum. After reading about Juan Diego Flórez's performance the other night in Donizetti's Fille du Régiment, however, it makes me want to go one last time before the season's end.