{"id":30041,"date":"2012-02-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/cheap-seats-getting-cheaper-at-the-nyc-metropolitan-opera\/"},"modified":"2012-02-25T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T10:00:00","slug":"cheap-seats-getting-cheaper-at-the-nyc-metropolitan-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/cheap-seats-getting-cheaper-at-the-nyc-metropolitan-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Seats Getting Cheaper at the NYC Metropolitan Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2012\/2\/NYC_Opera.jpg\" alt=\"CC Flickr photo credit: Tom in NYC\" title=\"CC Flickr photo credit: Tom in NYC\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>The cheap seats at the NYC Metropolitan Opera will now cost just $20 <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to boost ticket sales and overall revenue streams, the New York City Metropolitan Opera will introduce a new pricing plan for the 2012-13 season. <\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to a <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/AP2dc0ca5255054937b5bca6571cdeb94c.html\" target=\"_blank\">report from the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Met Opera officials will raise prices for the most sought after seats while lowering prices for the least expensive tickets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe price for the cheapest tickets will drop from $25 to just $20. The plan will increase the average cost of a ticket by about seven percent while raising projected revenue by 1.5 percent.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore than one-third of the opera&rsquo;s 3,800 seats will now cost less than $100.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>CC Flickr photo credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thomasrecke\/125958561\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom in NYC <\/a><\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The cheap seats at the NYC Metropolitan Opera will now cost just $20 &nbsp; In an attempt to boost ticket sales and overall revenue streams, the New York City Metropolitan Opera will introduce a new pricing plan for the 2012-13 season. &nbsp; According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Met Opera officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}