![]() ![]() This means that rush tickets go on sale at 4:00. Les Troyens does not have a normal curtain time of 8:00 PM, or even 7:00 PM, but instead starts at 6:00 and gets out after 11:00. It's about four hours of music spread over five acts, and with two intermissions, the total run time is about five hours. This is one of the longest operas in existence not composed by Richard Wagner. The issue is complicated by Les Troyens itself. But what's a safe time to join that line? That is the crux of the problem! The catch, of course, is that you can't just show up two hours before curtain and expect to snag a couple tickets. Only two tickets are allowed per customer.īut the actual process of getting rush tickets is anything but. These are seats that normally cost in the triple digits. For most Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evening performances, the Metropolitan Opera makes available 200 orchestra seats - 50 for seniors and the rest for us young folk - for $20 apiece. Rush tickets are so called because they go on sale on the day of the performance just two hours before curtain. I'll either be buying tickets in a section of the opera house requiring oxygen tanks, or taking advantage of something I've never tried before: But I've spent most of 2012 writing a book for peanuts, and I'm flat broke. The Metropolitan Opera has revived their production of Hector Berlioz's exuberantly audacious Les Troyens ("The Trojans") and I'd really like to see it.
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