Lower Ticket Prices Will Bring New Audiences to Opera, Argues David Lister (Again)

As the Royal Opera/Sun cheap-tickets-for-first-timers scheme a few years ago demonstrated, “[new] audiences for opera will be wooed by price, not subject matter. … [Have] an allocation of seats for under-25s at cinema prices, and they will come to Rigoletto, Carmen or Madam Butterfly even more enthusiastically than they will to Anna Nicole.