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Most of the modern trailer music has become so formulaic and banal, that I wouldn't be surprised if you could repurpose one of those GPT-3 neural networks to mass-produce trailer music, and nobody would notice that anything was off. John Williams has too much decency to even think about touching that industry. And on the rare occasion that he does write trailer music, it would be clearly advertised, and you would be able to hear actual quality music in the trailer.

I'd love to meet up, either before or after the concert!

I'd guess that young people aren't really the target audience for symphonic orchestras. Classical music isn't that popular. Also, the rehearsal hasn't been advertised as much as the actual concert. If it weren't for this thread, I wouldn't even have been aware that a public rehearsal were an option!

Yeah, these are selling slowly. Grab your chance to get one, if you aren't too old!

You need to login with your vivaticket account. If you don't know your password (I registered via Facebook, so I didn't get one), you can reset it at vivaticket.

Apparently, they started selling tickets for rehearsal a few hours early. I noticed that I was able to pick and reserve seats. However, I got stuck at the payment screen, because the website required that I pay via some Satispay app. I tried to set up that app, but it didn't accept my IBAN for some reason, so I lost my reservation. When I returned to the inititial website, the tickets were no longer on sale, and I have to wait until 14:00. It was pretty weird. I hope I can pay normally, without that app thing, once the proper sale begins. Otherwise, I don't think I can get the payment to work.

I chose to stay at Hotel Bernina Milano. It's a 3-star hotel, very central, with reasonable prices, and the reviews seemed good enough.

It was a wide range of prices, from a dozen euros or so for the cheapest seats, up to 158 euros for the floor seats, if I recall correctly.

He just wants to stock up on his cookie supplies at Anne-Sophie Mutter's, and the whole concert is just a convenient excuse.

I hope Milan isn't what completes or concludes John Williams' European appearances. I know he might be too old for these transatlantic flights, but I still want him to do a concert with London Symphony Orchestra, and, perhaps, one or two other European orchestras, like Royal Concertgebouw.

I think the queue was simply too short, and people were let in to ticket selection in far too great quantities, to the point where everything was sold out in a couple of minutes. If they had rather stretched the queue, made people wait, and ensured that no more, than, say, 10-20 people were choosing seats at the same time, the whole process would've been a much better experience.

No VIP tickets, but there was a presale for Filarmonica della Scala subscribers and music academia, which is why some seats were unavailable at the beginning of the sale.

They just made a statement about the concert being sold out: https://www.filarmonica.it/news/da-lunedi-10-ottobre-in-vendita-i-biglietti-per-il-concerto-straordinario-di-john-williams-con-la-filarmonica In their Facebook post, they also mention that the only way to get official tickets is through Vivaticket. I assume they are referring to the possibility of tickets being returned and resold in that website. So keep checking the event page regularly until December 12th, and you might be lucky enough to get tickets.

Yeah, I assume so.

I was googling around, and it looks like it's going to be a mixture of formal and semi-formal in the floor seat section and loges, with semi-casual in the galleries. As long as you don't come in casual or sports wear, you should be fine. The La Scala website specifies a dress code as well:

It's going to be a loge on the first (lowest) level. They are numerated, so you should have some additional numbers to identify the exact loge and seat.

The good thing about the tickets is that they seem to be personalized, so, fortunately, we didn't have to compete against Viagogo or Stubhub bots. There is also an option to sell your tickets on Vivaticket, which means that those who need tickets, can check the concert page regularly, and, if they are lucky, buy them at face value during the coming months.

It was the chimneys for me

For those who didn't get tickets - keep refreshing the site. I see a couple that are still available right now. People's payments can get rejected, and you can grab some seats if you're lucky.

It was possible. That's how I got my seats. It was very stressful, because at first I got an error when somebody took my selection before I could get to the payment screen.

I was hoping to get seats near the stage, but that was impossible. All the seats were taken within a few seconds, with just a handful of rows available towards the back. Fortunately, I got all the tickets that I wanted, so I will see you all in December!

The limit, that was set initially this morning, was 6 tickets per shopping cart. It's annoying that they cut it in half, because now I need to try and buy tickets in two sessions, to ensure that all my family can come along. I have no idea what the 2nd sentence means.

Buying tickets while deleting obnoxious website elements in developer mode was definitely the weirdest way of buying tickets I've ever experienced

There was an option to sign up using Facebook and Google, iirc. I picked the Facebook one, and didn't have to go through any e-mail verification. That might be an alternative way. Yeah, I think people will be allowed in in batches, not everyone at the same time. You might still experience some competition for the seats, but it shouldn't be a catastrophe like the Vienna thing a few years back, which didn't have any queueing system in place.

You have twenty minutes to enter your payment details after going to the check out screen. You have your tickets reserved during this time. There is a queuing system in place, which seems to be active already. I've tried refreshing the page, and got a message saying that I've lost my previous place in the queue. I think there might be significant traffic to that page already.