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OT: Italy says no to Babs ticket prices...
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Date: May 23, 2007 21:25
Not sure if this has been posted or not but I love it. Ticket prices are "absurd and shameful."
Streisand Ticket Prices Spark Outcry in Italy
Reuters
ROME (May 22) - Barbra Streisand may still be remembered for her Oscar-winning role in the 1968 film "Funny Girl," but Italy's big consumer groups have found nothing funny about the prices of tickets to her concert in Rome next month.
The Codacons and Adusbef groups have asked Rome's city government and Italy's Olympic Committee to deny permission for the singer to use the Flaminio Stadium on June 16 because they say the tickets to her concert are wildly exorbitant.
In a toughly worded statement, the consumer groups said the prices of the tickets, which range from $295 to $1,210 were "absurd and shameful."
It said that since the stadium is public property it "cannot be used for contracts that are immoral and which heap shame on a civilized country."
By comparison, the best seats at Milan's La Scala opera house run to about $269.
The 65-year-old singer and actress will be accompanied by a 58-piece orchestra as she starts a European tour.
The stadium, which is owned by the city and managed by the Italian Olympic Committee, has a capacity of about 25,000 spectators.
Organizers of the Streisand concert were not immediately available for comment.
Streisand Ticket Prices Spark Outcry in Italy
Reuters
ROME (May 22) - Barbra Streisand may still be remembered for her Oscar-winning role in the 1968 film "Funny Girl," but Italy's big consumer groups have found nothing funny about the prices of tickets to her concert in Rome next month.
The Codacons and Adusbef groups have asked Rome's city government and Italy's Olympic Committee to deny permission for the singer to use the Flaminio Stadium on June 16 because they say the tickets to her concert are wildly exorbitant.
In a toughly worded statement, the consumer groups said the prices of the tickets, which range from $295 to $1,210 were "absurd and shameful."
It said that since the stadium is public property it "cannot be used for contracts that are immoral and which heap shame on a civilized country."
By comparison, the best seats at Milan's La Scala opera house run to about $269.
The 65-year-old singer and actress will be accompanied by a 58-piece orchestra as she starts a European tour.
The stadium, which is owned by the city and managed by the Italian Olympic Committee, has a capacity of about 25,000 spectators.
Organizers of the Streisand concert were not immediately available for comment.
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