Posted AT 12:02 AM EDT on 02/01/07
Papageno takes on Rocky Balboa
It wasn't your typical matinee movie crowd. These people were mostly much older than that — and as they rode up the massive escalator on Saturday afternoon in Toronto's Paramount Theatre, they looked like they weren't quite sure where they were going.
But then this wasn't your typical matinee movie. This was the Metropolitan Opera, live from Lincoln Center in New York.
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