The Nutcracker auction has ended in Moscow, with bids coming in from all over Russia for scarce and expensive tickets in the Bolshoi’s seasonal run of 18 shows.
The starting price was 50,000 rubles.
The top price paid was 100,000 rubles, which exchanges these days for US$1,005.00
Bavarian Radio is claiming him as a local…
The orchestra has cancelled concerts until after the…
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Interesting way to fund a war ….
Oh I would pay that 1000$ to see excellence, tradition, beautiful sets and staging any time over Gelb’s cheap, wokie-tokie pseudo-opera crap at the MET.
cough cough… champion… cough cough…grounded… cough… fire shut up in my bones COUGH COUGH
The Bolshoi is off the charts in terms of excellence. But I do remember that acid attack from within the company; I guess that’s the way you solve problems in Russia.
Bolshoi tickets used to be at high price for tourists and totally affordable for Russians. Now the only tourists are from North Korea and Syria times is hard…
And who’s propping up Russia? China, exactly! And who’s propping up China? The ‘West’, buying chinese stuff like phones, tv’s, cars and mini screwdrivers off eBay.
Who’s propping up Russia? Russians! Who are more than capable of standing on their own two feet.
But a bit problematic if you’ve already lost one leg in Ukraine or Syria ….
And likely the computers you, I, and everyone else are reading this thread on. The CD players and streaming devices we use, not to mention the audio gear. Even my beloved Cambridge Audio system (you know, Great British Audio) is made in, alas, China. At least bourbon is still made here…
The bolsheviks had a joke, “A capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.”
Now we’re paying them to sell us the toys we ruin ourselves with.
That’s cheap compared to Taylor Swift tickets.
And better value.