Letter from New York: Patrick Dillon finds a vivid rendering of past and present at the Metropolitan Opera's 125th birthday bash.

Opera Canada | June 22, 2009 | Copyright

Opera galas, for all their surface pomp and circumstantially inflated prices, can be ho-hum affairs--full of sound and Hurry but signifying naught. Not so the Metropolitan Operas March 15 celebration of its own 125 years of existence, and the 40 of those spent in happy tandem with its primo tenore assoluto. His name, should anyone wonder, is Placido Domingo, and it was only fitting that on this quite literally glittering evening (the curtain calls, post--Rheingold finale, unfolded amid a shower of golden confetti dispensed by a trinity of angels hovering aloft) a near-third ...

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