A free concert is scheduled for tonight at Prospect Park starring opera's real life couple Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu.
From the article:
To accommodate what the Met officials said they hoped would be a crowd of 150,000, the concert has been planned for the Long Meadow in Prospect Park, which has twice the capacity of the Great Lawn in Central Park.
But the decision also means that for the first summer since the house’s outdoor concerts started, in 1967, the Met will not be heard in Central Park. That will probably not please the faithful who arrived with their blankets at 7 a.m. in front of the stage on the Great Lawn year after year. Nor will residents of the Bronx, Queens or Staten Island have a chance to hear the Met on their home turf.
Mr. Gelb said putting the concert in Prospect Park placed it closer to the city’s geographical center and sent a less elitist message than a lone concert in Manhattan would have. “It seemed like the more democratic choice to place it in Prospect Park,” Mr. Gelb said.
Read the article here. You can see videos at the New York Times' site of these two great performers also.
