Concertgebouw tickets

bonzo75

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Just booked tickets for Bernard Haitink conducting Bruckner 7 on Sunday Feb 19th. So expensive at 154 Euro! London orchestras are subsidised so had seen him do this with the LSO at 1/3rd the price. Small ensembles can be heard even at almost 1/10th the price.

Only the Royal Opera House in London has atrocious prices.
 

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Expensive to be sure, but the acoustics in the Concertgebouw are so lovely it's almost worth it. I'd struggle to pay that myself, mind you.

(In other news, I was at an orchestral concert at the Royal Festival Hall for the first time a few weeks back, right up at the top of the house, and I found the acoustics "interesting". In many ways, not as bad as I was expecting, but in some other ways...!)
 

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Expensive to be sure, but the acoustics in the Concertgebouw are so lovely it's almost worth it. I'd struggle to pay that myself, mind you.

(In other news, I was at an orchestral concert at the Royal Festival Hall for the first time a few weeks back, right up at the top of the house, and I found the acoustics "interesting". In many ways, not as bad as I was expecting, but in some other ways...!)

The festival hall top is not good, but better than back stalls which have the balcony on top obstructing the sound. Front stalls are the best. Not as good as Barbican but better than Albert Hall easily. The Purcell Hall there (now undergoing refurb) is very good for small ensemble.

I have been to concertgebouw for Handel Arias, but this is a bigger concert. Handel arias were quite cheap though. So I assume they have differential pricing. In London it varies between 40 - 65 quid for main seats (based on the performance), rarely have I seen it at 95 in these concert halls.
 

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Just booked tickets for Bernard Haitink conducting Bruckner 7 on Sunday Feb 19th. So expensive at 154 Euro! London orchestras are subsidised so had seen him do this with the LSO at 1/3rd the price. Small ensembles can be heard even at almost 1/10th the price.

Only the Royal Opera House in London has atrocious prices.

Probably you are paying more for the Concertgebouw ticket than for the Schipol ticket! :)
 

bonzo75

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Probably you are paying more for the Concertgebouw ticket than for the Schipol ticket! :)

Actually, yes. 66% of the cost should be the flight ticket
 

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Kedar,

Have a great time. We couldn't get tickets for the RCOA when we were in Amsterdam a few years ago, but heard a regional orchestra - wonderful acoustics. We heard the RCOA a few weeks later at the Barbican (I think the tickets were less than 50GBP for the best seats). I noticed the prices in Amsterdam were sky high. Same with the Vienna Philharmonic in Vienna.

Larry
 

bonzo75

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Kedar,

Have a great time. We couldn't get tickets for the RCOA when we were in Amsterdam a few years ago, but heard a regional orchestra - wonderful acoustics. We heard the RCOA a few weeks later at the Barbican (I think the tickets were less than 50GBP for the best seats). I noticed the prices in Amsterdam were sky high. Same with the Vienna Philharmonic in Vienna.

Larry

The RCOA is playing at Barbican this year as well, I am going definitely for the second one, not sure about the first yet
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=19234

http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=19236
 

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