Sam Van Dam

"Ridiculously expensive program (and very thin!) and probably the only opera house in Europe where you have to pay for the vestiaire, unfriendly box office people"

"As a student, enter their Access All Arias scheme to buy stalls seats at 30 instead of 100+ quid. Buy programmes not at the entrance (where there will be a long queu) but at the doors to your section"

"Come early to avoid the queu"

"Avoid at all costs. Tourist trap"