A Day At The Met: Opera For New Yorkers And The World

NEW YORK: In a cramped backstage area at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, French mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch adjusts her 19th century dress. Around her are other singers, a costume assistant, two cameramen and a dozen stagehands ready to move a tree and a park bench to change the sets for the second act of Jules Massenet's "Weather". Koch smiles, breathes deeply and climbs a wooden staircase. A few seconds later, she is on stage with German...watch now>>

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