All first-year students in CC, SEAS, and BC are eligible to register for the Urban NY lottery for a chance to win a FREE ticket to see The Exterminating Angel opera at the Met! The lottery opens for registration on September 18 at 9:00 a.m. Please see the Urban NY website to register, an event list, and details about the Urban NY program. About the opera: Following the rapturous response to his last opera, The Tempest, the Met presents the American premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, inspired by the classic Luis Buñuel film of the same name. Hailed by the New York Times at its 2016 Salzburg Festival premiere as “inventive and audacious … a major event,” The Exterminating Angel is a surreal fantasy about a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape. Tom Cairns, who wrote the libretto, directs the new production, and Adès conducts his own adventurous new opera