The Leninists at NYC's Metropolitan Opera have *slightly* jacked-up the prices for next season:
The Met is selling $100,000 boxes for its opening-night presentation of Lucia di Lammermoor with soprano Natalie Dessay and tenor Marcello Giordani, the company said Tuesday.
For that price, the buyer gets an eight-seat box on the parterre level, eight tickets for the pre-opera cocktail reception and eight places at the post-opera black-tie dinner with the performers.
It's only $ 12,500 a seat after all; but frankly we're disappointed that, for that kind of money, there's no free use of at least one slave for one's personal needs before, during and after the performance (as we understand is the tradition at Bayreuth).
(Herblock cartoon courtesy of the Library of Congress, where, last time we went, we were not charged for browsing. Now wait until Peter Gelb hears of that)