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- it doesn't sound like something where I can get away with spending the cost of the ticket and not much more - but I may yet make it.
Take yer own picnic (doing so is officially encouraged) and there needn't be any further cost - you can pick up a Cast List free in lieu of the gorgeous full-colour advertising catalogue that masquerades as a "program"  Unless you're a saddo like me and are keen to see which of your former mates are still on third desk of the cellos I'm sure you'd gain the most enormous cred from arriving on a motorbike |
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« Reply #76 on: 21:48:06, 19-07-2008 » |
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« Reply #77 on: 01:03:57, 20-07-2008 » |
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tinners, are all the standing room tickets gone? Chances are they vanished immediately, but it's worth checking if there have been any returns - those are £15 and you get a better view than the partial view slips/side boxes. The sound is excellent everywhere in the hall.
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« Reply #78 on: 08:23:32, 20-07-2008 » |
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I need to look seriously at whether I can afford it - it doesn't sound like something where I can get away with spending the cost of the ticket and not much more. Oh but you can, t-i-n, you can. My budget for the occasion is £15 for the ticket, £6 for the bus and £2 for a coffee in the interval to go with the fish-paste sarnies concealed about my, er, 'dinner'-jacket. |
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« Reply #79 on: 08:40:59, 20-07-2008 » |
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Don't you need a train ticket too, George? I've forgotten where you live, so perhaps you are local and don't.
Tinners, I would say the minimum you should expect to spend is £31 - that's full-view standing ticket, DaySave rail fare as I outlined earlier, and bus. Stretch the budget to £46 and choose a day with the ticket deal for under 30s*, and you could have a good seat as well... Take your own food, alcohol and coffee. There's free drinking water available on the bar.
*I cursed Glyndebourne a little for not putting Love and Other Demons on earlier in the season before I became too old for this deal!
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« Reply #80 on: 08:56:40, 20-07-2008 » |
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Don't you need a train ticket too, George? I was hoping to cadge a lift on t-i-n(1) and t-i-n(2)'s motorbike, Ruth. Sussex is so lovely at this time of year.  |
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« Reply #81 on: 10:59:37, 20-07-2008 » |
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Of course, the motorbike opens-up new possibilities for bunking-in without the cost of a ticket at all:  |
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« Reply #82 on: 12:58:37, 20-07-2008 » |
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I got round to listening to the podcast of the last Music Matters of the season, in which Tom Service (isn't that young man eager) interviewed Eotvos.
The composer said several times that he wrote the opera bearing the Glyndebourne audience in mind. In his home town of Budapest they wouldn't understand ethnic diversity, as I understood him to say. Gives a different slant to these Glyndebourne types than we have been getting so far. Maybe Hungarians don't pick up on English social nuances.
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« Reply #83 on: 17:32:08, 21-07-2008 » |
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And as DonB has kindly established, it's only 91 miles from Forest Hill on the motorbike ...  Kilometres. That's about 55 miles, isn't it? |
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« Reply #84 on: 00:11:24, 31-07-2008 » |
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Kilometres. That's about 55 miles, isn't it?
Oh, even closer! Not sure if I'm quite brave enough for riding pillion on motorways yet, though ... Maybe we should invest in a good old-fashioned side car, then we can give George a lift too! (In fact t-i-n(2) is riding off to Snorbens in the morning to interpret for a court case there, funnily enough.) Have only just seen the latest set of replies to this thread. I'd more or less given up on the idea, but maybe I should re-investigate. Thanks for the under-30s tip, Ruth, but unfortunately that would work for me but not for Him with the Bike. |
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« Reply #85 on: 09:02:53, 31-07-2008 » |
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Incidentally: you can pick up a Cast List free in lieu of the gorgeous full-colour advertising catalogue that masquerades as a "program" Unless you're a saddo like me and are keen to see which of your former mates are still on third desk of the cellos And unlike the free cast lists available at the ROH or ENO, you actually get a synopsis printed on the back as well! (oh, and if you do want to read the programme articles without purchasing a £15 Festival brochure, I've got one you could borrow  ) |
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Sorry to see that Marisol Montaivo, for whom the part of Sierva Maria was written, has had to withdraw. But, as the reviews say, her part is taken by Allison Bell who several here will remember as an absolute stonkeroo of a Pretty Polly in the ROH/WNO Punch and Judy at the Linbury.
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« Reply #88 on: 17:40:48, 12-08-2008 » |
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Sorry to see that Marisol Montaivo, for whom the part of Sierva Maria was written, has had to withdraw. But, as the reviews say, her part is taken by Allison Bell who several here will remember as an absolute stonkeroo of a Pretty Polly in the ROH/WNO Punch and Judy at the Linbury.
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« Reply #89 on: 18:39:35, 12-08-2008 » |
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Allison Bell who several here will remember as an absolute stonkeroo of a Pretty Polly in the ROH/WNO Punch and Judy at the Linbury
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