The house has already charged £213 per performance for its recent Ring Cycle, arguably an exceptional case with vast forces involved and the tetralogy of operas lasting a total of 18 hours. Justifying the high top-end prices, Hall said: "What we are doing is using what we think we can get from certain seats to keep prices as low as we can elsewhere." Seat prices taken as a whole are due to rise in line with inflation. More than half the house's tickets, he said, will be priced at £50 and below and 40% will be priced at £30 or below, 43,000 more seats than at present. A quarter of our seats will cost £30 or less, which is bloody brilliant compared with football." The ROH chief executive, Tony Hall, said: "We are using that money to reduce the price of other tickets. They already easily surpass other exclusive houses such as Glyndebourne (£190) the Metropolitan Opera, New York ( £147) and La Scala, Milan (£160).
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