A board member at the Metropolitan Opera has purchased $500,000 worth of prime seats for the upcoming run of John Adams’ new opera Doctor Atomic so they can be sold to the curious but cash-strapped for only $30 a pop. Doctor Atomic is set in New Mexico in the summer of 1945 and it tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the a-bomb through song. This is awesome for many reasons, not the least of which the fact that $30 a ticket for a full-on opera is a way better New York culture deal than, say, $30 for a ticket to any show at the awful-in-every-way Manhattan venue Terminal 5. [Metropolitan Opera via TRGAW / Pic via Opera Today]
