Two tickets to The Metropolitan Opera's production of "Tosca" on Monday, April 4th, 2011 at Lincoln Center.  Orchestra Row N, Seats 5-7.

Tosca is an opera of geometric precision. Its three acts take place at the points of a triangle in the center of Rome—a church, a palace, and a prison, each a short walk from the other. The dating is exact (June 1800, a few days after Napoleon’s bloody victory at Marengo), the politics are pointed, and the action is bounded by a day. Most important, Puccini diagrams on the molecular level the emotional bonds among three characters locked in desire and betrayal.