The Metropolitan Opera saw a seven percent increase in ticket sales this season. “It was the opera house’s first ticket-sale increase by season in six years, with 810,225 sold, compared with 755,255 in 2005-06, Gelb said today in an interview. In all, the Met sold 83.9 percent of tickets offered this season for its 3,800-seat opera house at Manhattan’s Lincoln Center, compared with 76.8 percent last year.”