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From: Alex Honzen
Subject: Opera/Classical Music too expensive?
To: vocalist-at-lists.oulu.fi
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One more affordable way of hearing/seeing opera might
be to go to some productions done by smaller
companies. I would imagine most larger cities have at
least a few, and some of them are quite good. It may
be a risk, but if you don't like the performance at
least you haven't cleaned out your bank account to go
see it.

As for larger houses, sure, there are ways of knocking
a lot of money off the ticket price. But for the most
part I have to agree that the prices are a lot more
expensive than corresponding tickets for theatre, etc.
(Though the gap is certainly closing quickly, thanks
to places like Disneyland - er, I mean Broadway.) I'm
sure the production costs for large-scale opera are
mind-boggling, but I do wish that more effort was made
to make opera accessible to everyone who wants to see
it - not just people that can afford to plunk down
about $100 a performance. Apparently there are some
world-class singers who weren't ever able to see an
opera at a major house until they were IN one.
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