| | | Recently I got the urge to go and see Turandot at the Royal Opera House. It's an opera that I love and appeared in at the ROH a very long time ago and the combination of music and nostalgia drove me to check out the site.
Over the years I've heard and read a lot about the exclusivity of opera but it never really connected until I noticed how much a good seat at the ROH costs. The best seats for an opera cost £160, the cheapest restricted view costs £8 but you can't see the stage without damaging your eyes from that angle. Opera is meant to be a complete experience, stage and sound but it's denied to the average person because the pricing is so high. Restricted view seats in the balcony come at a price of £65!
I think the cost is utterly abhorrent. The Royal Opera House has introduced a scheme whereby children from schools visit their wardrobe department but most of those kids aren't even going to be able to see an opera there unless they save or earn a wage that's above the national average as adults.
I don't think we've had a thread addressing this subject and hopefully it'll turn from my little rant into a discussion on the nature of exclusivity and the accessibility of classical music? |
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