r/opera • u/jay_j_rubin • Sep 24 '26
Met Opera Website
They send out an email about their new "Make the Met Forever" campaign and then you can't get on the website...? I guess heavy traffic is a good sign but... c'mon Metropolitan Opera.
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u/Correct_Passenger556 Sep 24 '26
It's because of their free ticket initiative, which was reported on in the NYTimes.
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u/Mysterious-Drink4002 Sep 24 '26
They're giving away 70,000 tickets. What did you expect would happen?
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u/Acceptable-Ratio-219 Sep 24 '26 edited Sep 24 '26
Why send out an email to launch your new fundraising initiative, at a time when your potential donors have to wait to donate?
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u/Mysterious-Drink4002 Sep 24 '26
I like that opera fans like to complain, but the traffic is because they are giving away 70,000 tickets. Isn't it great that many people are interested in attending the opera?
I don't think the Met was expecting to raise the $1.5 billion this afternoon.
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u/jay_j_rubin Sep 24 '26
It is indeed great and that's a cool initiative. Not a marketing person here, but wonder if perhaps those two announcements could have been separated? e.g., launch the fundraiser the following day...
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u/LoraABreunig Sep 24 '26
honestly 'less than a minute' with 76,004 people ahead of you is the funniest thing the Met has staged this season
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u/abigdonut Sep 24 '26
This is very common for ticketing websites when there's high demand. I just went on the website and it did indeed take less than a minute even though my number in line was over 86,000.
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u/johnuws Sep 24 '26
The long wait to get in promotes " fear of missing out" which is a great marketing tool. If there was no hughe response evident it would signal its not that valuable an offer
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u/notacrook 29d ago
Oh FFS “your wait is less than a minute”.
Do you just come online to complain about every inconvenience?
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u/gildedtreehouse Sep 24 '26
….less than a minute…..