The Met is forced to sell cut-price tickets through Lincoln Center

The  Metropolitan Opera, its website wiped  out for  a fifth  consecutive day by a massive cyber  attack, has arrennged to sell tickets through  the Lincoln Center box-office, some  at deep discount.

The current statement reads: ‘We are grateful to our friends at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts who have allowed us to continue to offer tickets to select upcoming performances through their website. Tickets are general admission and priced at $50 each. Seating will be in the orchestra section of the opera house, and locations will be assigned by Met ushers on a first-come, first-served basis immediately prior to curtain.’

There is no sign yet frm the Met when service will be resumed on its own site.

There is no progress, either, in repairinng the attack on Vienna’s Musikverein.

Both institutions are suffering grievous financial loss.