Actress Sienna Miller, her mother Jo Miller and her boyfriend, actor Jude Law, attend the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera 2006-2007 season at Lincoln Center Sept. 25, 2006, in New York. The city's glitziest celebrities turned out for the annual black-tie affair.
Sienna Miller poses on the red carpet at the Metropolitan Opera 2006-2007 season opening night at Lincoln Center Sept. 25, 2006, in New York. The opening pereformance, Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" was simulcast in the Lincoln Center plaza and in Times Square, where a giant screen beamed opera to an audience in a blocked-off area of Broadway.
TV personality Barbara Walters is photographed in the grand tier of the Metropolitan Opera House during the Metropolitan Opera 2006-2007 season opening night Sept. 25, 2006.
Actress Liv Tyler and designer Zac Posen attend the Metropolitan Opera 2006-2007 season opening night at Lincoln Center Sept. 25, 2006, in New York. Dozens of gowned and bejeweled celebrities swept along the red carpet to see an opera performance prepared by film director Anthony Minghella.
British rock star David Bowie and his wife, model Iman, pose for photographers at New York's Lincoln Center before attending the 2006-2007 season opening performance of the Metropolitan Opera.
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and his wife, Judy Nathan, attend the Metropolitan Opera 2006-2007 season opening night at Lincoln Center Sept. 25, 2006, in New York. Giuliani's love of opera is legendary.
Actress Meg Ryan attends the Metropolitan Opera 2006-2007 season opening night at Lincoln Center Sept. 25, 2006, in New York. In addition to a full house at the Met, the opera was enoyed, via simulcast, by more than 2,000 people in the Lincoln Center Plaza and about 1,000 others in Times Square.
Actor Liev Schreiber escorts actress Naomi Watts to a black-tie opening night of Metropolitan Opera's 2006-2007 season at Lincoln Center Sept. 25, 2006, in New York.
No stranger to Lincoln Center, ballet dancer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov and his wife, Lisa Rinehart, attend the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera's 2006-2007 season at Lincoln Center Sept. 25, 2006, in New York.
Fashion model Iman shows off her backless gown on the red carpet at the Metropolitan Opera's 2006-2007 season-opening performance at Lincoln Center Sept. 25, 2006.
Actress Vera Farmiga is accompanied by Renn Hawkey for the opening-night performance of the Metropolitan Opera 2006-2007 season Sept. 25, 2006, in New York. This season, the Met plans more than 200 performances of some 27 productions.
Australian actress Naomi Watts attends the Metropolitan Opera 2006-2007 season opening night at Lincoln Center Sept. 25, 2006, in New York.
Actor Sean Connery with his wife, artist Micheline Roquebrune, climbs the staircase to the graand tier at the Metropolitan Opera for the 2006-2007 season-opening performance at Lincoln Center Sept. 25, 2006, in New York.
Model Iman shows off her gown at the Metropolitan Opera's 2006-2007 season opening night at Lincoln Center Sept. 25, 2006, in New York.
Actress Meg Ryan models her black gown at the Metropolitan Opera 2006-2007 season opening performance at Lincoln Center Sept. 25, 2006, in New York.
Actress Liv Tyler shows off her Zac Posen outfit on the red carpet at the Metropolitan Opera's 2006-2007 season opening night at Lincoln Center Sept. 25, 2006, in New York.
Writer Salman Rushdie accompanies model Padma Lakshmi to the opening-night performance of the Metropolitan Opera's 2006-2007 season at Lincoln Center Sept. 25, 2006, in New York. Some 3,000 more casually dressed audience members watched via simulcast from the Lincoln Center plaza and in Times Square.