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I'm slightly surprised, since when I asked Covent Garden's chief exec, Tony Hall whether it would happen again a few months ago he gave me the impression that there would be a special season opener this time round but it would all be tremendously different and quite, quite fresh. Anyway, as last year, Sun readers (or indeed Guardian readers who are cannily keeping an eye out for the offer to appear) will be able to apply for tickets through <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090729233045/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/sun">the Sun</a>'s website. Tickets will be awarded by ballot and the prices are very nice: between £7.50 and £30 for Carmen and £7.50 and £20 for Mayerling. The evenings are supported by the Helen Hamlyn trust.</p><p>I still feel vaguely disturbed by the ROH's social engineering of its audience in this way. But what I particularly enjoyed last year was the Sun's <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090729233045/http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2008/jul/30/operathesunlovesit">marvellously robust writing about opera</a>. 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