From: "John Beamish" 

True ... but this is The Ring Cycle.  At Die Walkure a woman was offering
her two tickets for $250 -- I should have checked just to see where they
were.  (The performance in a 2,500 seat theatre was sold out.)


"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
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> In article , "John Beamish"
 DOT com> says...
> > Valerie got an autoreply to her application for tickets (you might not
be
> > able to get any ... heck, *SHE* might not get any):
>
> I have never failed to get tickets to the Civic Opera. If you show up to
> Will Call about an hour before the performance, there are always
> tickets, and almost always doubles (2 seats together).
>
> I've never seen at at the Civic, but at Orchestra Hall, there are
> sometimes scalpers who sell at face value.
>

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