Starting October 1 of this year, the Bolshoi Theater (State Bolshoi Academic Theater) will sell exclusively personalized tickets. This was reported by the theater to viewers on its social network page.
“To avoid ticket speculation, guided by concern for you, the Bolshoi Theater is making forced and necessary changes to the ticket sales rules.” – explains the main theater of the country.
The Bolshoi warns that by purchasing tickets “in other places and from other organizations or individuals, you run the risk of purchasing a counterfeit. A false ticket does not guarantee entry to the theater.”
Furthermore, this rule applies not only to the purchase of tickets for performances on the historic stage, but also on the chamber stage, although it was always possible to access the new building with complete peace of mind, speculators were never interested in the performances. there.
In principle, there is nothing radically wrong with personalized banknotes; In fact, in theory, resellers do not have the opportunity to continue their business; However, a spectator who is ill or has gone on a business trip may return such a ticket only in person at the theater box office or by registered mail with a set of documents. Ticket refunds are not made to your personal account on the theater’s website.
Furthermore, the ticket can be returned only three days before the performance and not a second after; Otherwise, the money spent, which now amounts to 50 thousand rubles, will simply not be returned. An avid theater fan will be able to return tickets only 2 times a month.
At the same time, the full cost of the ticket can only be refunded if the ticket is returned no later than 10 days before the show; 5 days before the event, 50% of the cost will only be refunded 3 days before the event; 30%.
The theater closed comments on its Telegram channel, but opera and ballet lovers are actively outraged on the Bolshoi VKontakte account.
Users note that all theaters in Moscow and Russia have the ability to return tickets remotely. Theater subscribers call these tickets “non-refundable” and compare them with travel documents for a train or plane, which can still be returned almost before the moment of departure with minimal losses, unlike a ticket for the Bolshoi .
As reported EADailyThe country’s main theater, this year, also as part of the fight against ticket scalpers, increased prices twice. In February, the price increase for the cheapest seats was 150%, repertory performances became more expensive than the mega-popular “The Nutcracker,” and morning and afternoon performances became equal in price to evening performances . At the same time, on average across the country and in the capital’s cinemas, tickets increased in price by only 4%.
On the eve of the new season, viewers learned that prices for stands and seats with limited visibility now range from 6 to 35 thousand rubles; seats in the opera and ballet stalls can be purchased for 30 to 50 thousand rubles.
Subscribers to the theater’s Telegram channel called the new prices “inadequate and unaffordable for the majority.”
theater blogger Natalia Beizerova considered the theater’s new pricing policy “a slap in the face to regular viewers.” He expressed his sympathy not only for the art lovers who lost the theater, but also for the artists, “who will now perform not in front of those who sincerely love them, but in front of those who came only to take a photo with a chandelier.”
