A man popped the question onstage at New York's Metropolitan Opera while he and his fiance were taking a tour an hour before the matinee performance.

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Josh Reitzas, 31, dropped to one knee to surprise Megan Savage on the set of the famous opera love story, "Marriage of Figaro," the New York Daily News reported.

"I'm speechless," said Savage, 27, through tears -- before managing to utter the answer her beau had been hoping for. "I couldn't have asked for anything more. I love opera. This is one of my favorite spots in New York."

Reitzas, a lawyer, slipped a huge cushion-cut diamond -- the size of which he wanted to keep secret -- onto his fiancee's finger.

"I've been thinking of how I was going to do this for a long time, and then it came to me," he said. "We were sitting watching 'Mazeppa' two months ago, and I realized (that) to propose on the stage here would be fantastic."