Christine Baranski, Susan Sarandon & More Dress Up for the Metropolitan Opera’s Opening Night

“Are you kidding? This is the Metropolitan Opera!” What brings one out to the Metropolitan Opera Opening Night Gala needs no explanation, according to F. Murray Abraham. The 2024-2025 season at the Met kicked off just after 6:30 p.m. on Monday, with the performance of “Grounded,” a contemporary English-language opera with music by Jeanine Tesori and featuring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo. The night began an hour prior with a cocktail reception in the lobby. As always, the opening night gala brought opera superfans and A-listers out. Christine Baranski, Patricia Clarkson, Susan Sarandon, Eva Amurri, Edie Falco, Jonathan Groff, Ellen Burstyn, Josh Charles and Sophie Flack, Peter Dinklage, Susie Essman, Amy Ryan, Juliana Canfield and Edmund Donovan, Sarah Pidgeon, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Sydney Lemmon, Zoe Chao, Melora Hardin, Margarita Levieva, Zoe Winters, Georgina Chapman and Cynthia Rowley were all in attendance Monday, dressed to the nines and ready for the show. “You look great!” photographers complimented Clarkson as they snapped her picture. She replied with her age — “64!” — as she posed.  Winters, best known for playing Kerry on “Succession,” tossed her coat onto the floor out of view for a photo-op. Rowley arrived with a creative spin on black tie, wearing a long skirt

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