♦ It was the Metropolitan Opera's 125th opening night on Monday and so naturally a long list of recognizable faces trooped out for the occasion. In floor-length gowns and tuxes to walk the red carpet and watch Renée Fleming: Barbara Walters, Howard Stringer, Michael Bloomberg, Helen Mirren, Christie Brinkley, Faye Dunaway, Molly Sims, Taylor Momsen, Martha Stewart, Hilary and Bryant Gumbel, Henry Kravis, Mercedes Bass, Ann Ziff, Georgina Chapman (left), Helena Christensen, Jane Fonda, John Lithgow, Juliana Margulies, Joy and Regis Philbin, John Turturro, Parker Posey, Peggy Siegal, Ellen and Chuck Scarborough, Deborah Norville, Julie Macklowe, and Tory Burch. [Park Ave Peerage, NYSun, Wireimage, PMc]

♦ Jewelery designer Barry Kieselstein-Cord, the ex-husband of Cece and father of former "It" girl Elizabeth, has sold his Lexington Avenue mansion, known as the Parge House (left), for $23 million. Cord purchased the seven-bedroom townhouse for $3 million in 2008 and first put it on the market for $23.5 million in 2006. (You can see the photos here.) The buyer is listed on property records as Lex 65 LLC. [Cityfile]
♦ Filmmaker Anja Murmann paid $2.6 million for a loft in SoHo. The three-bedroom space on 451 Broome Street was purchased from Chelsea Art Museum founders Jean Miotte and Dorothea Keeser. [Cityfile]
♦ Asian art dealer Michael Weisbrod's Westhampton mansion, which was previously on the market last year for $9 million, is now being handled as a bankruptcy sale, with an asking price of just $6 million. [Newsday]