I don't know what website you're looking at, but your numbers for tonight in the orchestra and the Grand Tier are inflated by about a third. God, I wish they had 100 seats in the orchestra, maybe they would have sold some of them as rush today.
And yes, we can only talk about the production in its first run. Though if we do want to speculate about future productions, right now we'd do better to measure this opera against "Porgy and Bess", which was the runaway hit of last season. |