I like Otto Friedrich's solution to the length of Wagner operas, though this only worked because he had bottom-of-the-price-curve top-balcony seats to the already inexpensive Paris Opera productions in the 1950s:
Buy tickets to two successive nights. On the first night, attend the first half and then go out to dinner. The second night, have an early dinner and come in for the second half.
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Date: 2015-05-14 04:57 pm (UTC)Buy tickets to two successive nights. On the first night, attend the first half and then go out to dinner. The second night, have an early dinner and come in for the second half.