Tickets

After an internet pre-sale yesterday, single ticket sales for Opera Australia's 2009 season opened at the Opera House at 9 o'clock this morning. If you went there this morning to book, you may have discovered the box office in the midst of a system failure. I'd like at this point, rightly or wrongly, to take credit for breaking Tessitura. It was at a crucial moment in my transaction that the first terminal froze. The others followed. I don't know how long the meltdown lasted, but I'd like to think it was the sheer force of my devotion which the Opera House computers simply couldn't withstand.

Anyway, after a slightly complicated and drawn out process, I have my tickets, and have achieved a new personal best in terms of opening day purchases. The string of tickets now in my possession is, unfurled, almost as tall as I am. Which is short for a person, but rather tall for a string of tickets. And now the waiting begins.

Comments

[G]

Can I ask why you didn't subscribe if you were buying that many tickets?

[Sarah Noble]

11 tickets, 3 operas, and in every reserve except Premium - including a few of my favourite seats - I don't think there's a subscription which would allow for that.
Plus, I'm slow on the uptake, but it has finally occured to me to throw a youth subscription into the mix as well, mostly for the consequent discount.

[Simon]

You don't divulge which operas?! I am off to Manon Lescaut and Peter Grimes.

[Sarah]

I am the soul of predictability. My three operas were Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut and the Dido & Aeneas/Acis & Galatea double bill. There are still (a lot) more tickets to buy. Grimes is high on my list as well. (Actually I am trying to become less excited about it, right now I'm so full of anticipation I worry I will be disappointed.)