All Senior students in Columbia College and College of Engineering are eligible to register for the Urban NY lottery for a chance to win a FREE ticket to see Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera! The lottery opens for registration on January 29 at 12:00 p.m. through February 7 at 12:00 p.m.Please see the Urban NY website to register, an event list, and details about the Urban NY program. Perhaps the most endearingly successful of the many operatic settings of the world’s consummate love story, Roméo et Juliette is an excellent example of French Romanticism, a tradition that values subtlety, sensuality, and graceful vocal delivery over showy effects. In the opera there is a slight shift of focus away from the word games of the original play and a greater focus on the two lovers, who are given four irresistible duets, including a brief final reunion in the tomb scene that does not appear in the play.