• @[email protected]OPEnglish
    8•19 days ago

    I should explain, here’s how I ended up on this page:

    • Doing a crossword, answer was “La Scala”
    • So I looked that up, read about the theater on Wikipedia
    • Then I found it on the map
    • Then i checked out pictures of it
    • Then I clicked through to the web site
    • Curious what people pay for tickets there, I found that page

    The only opera I’ve been to so far was in Vienna. They have a tourist option where you can stand in the back, under the seats good people sit in, for like 5 euros. My friend and I did that with the other filthy travellers until we couldn’t stand any longer, about 30 minutes.

    Your points are totally spot on, but I thought some context might be important here.

    • @pdxfed
      1•19 days ago

      Heh, thanks for the context and no worries my response was probably way too detailed for a community around ugly software, which this page certainly was. I should probably just have up voted and moved on! There are lots of cheap tickets to operas, matinees and previews (before show officially opens, like a dress rehearsal++) are a great way to see incredible things on a peasant’s budget in almost any city.

      I’m not a software engineer, just a lowly user, but I habitually dig into the “whys” when things are broken and it always comes back to resource allocation and it’s hard to get away from.