In addition, the Met will offer five more recitals in each of the five boroughs between July 17 and August 14, as well as a 10-day festival of high-definition broadcasts of Met productions in Lincoln Center Plaza, ending with the late Anthony Minghella's staging of Madama Butterfly on Labor Day.

As previously announced, the Met's 2009-10 season opens on September 21 with a new production of Puccini's Tosca with Karita Mattila in the title role.

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