Some highlights in the past 5 years have included (but are certainly not limited to): I have rarely spent over £25 for a ticket – and sometimes as little as £4 – and generally go for the Upper Slips (the view above is from seat DD4, but don’t be stealing my seat!) which offers a good enough view for the ticket I can afford. These trials included a seat that meant I missed an entire scene sung atop a horse, or forcing my sister to stand with me for 4.5 hours of Berlioz on a sunny Sunday afternoon. It’s taken a bit of trial and error to work out my favourite place to sit that combines good price with not-too-terrible view or uncomfortable seat. I’ve lived in London for just over 5 years and have been attending the ROH basically since I moved here. (That’s not to say I haven’t sometimes seen performances that haven’t blown me away – I have mentally planned tomorrow’s dinner, or wondered what I’m doing at the weekend, or played out imaginary arguments, during an occasional boring Act). I have fallen in love here, cried here, discovered new favourites, and generally been emotionally overwhelmed by some of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen. I think it isn’t going too far to say that the Royal Opera House is one of my favourite places in the whole world (on a list that includes the British Museum, my parents’s settee, and my own bed). Tags Austria ballet Beethoven Brahms Church composer Concert concert hall conductor culture Elgar England English food history holiday house Italy Korea London Mahler Mozart museum music notes opera Opera house orchestra organ palace premiere programme notes Richard Strauss Rimsky-Korsakov Russia Seoul Shostakovich Sibelius St Petersburg Strauss symphony Tchaikovsky temple theatre tickets tour travel Vienna Wagner walk Recent Posts
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