Mariinsky social tickets. The procedure for providing discount tickets (for travel, to the theater) for pensioners

How to get to your favorite theaters without exorbitant expenses - 5 simple rules and some details from the theaters themselves and from the audience on how to buy cheap theater tickets.

If the soul demands beauty, and market prices for spiritual food are high, you should look for inexpensive theater tickets and use certain tricks in order not to miss the opportunity to attend a performance.

1. Use the official websites of theaters

Tickets to any theater can now be ordered and purchased on its official website. In addition, keep in mind that by the beginning of the sales period, only about 30% of all tickets are at the theater box office; the remaining tickets have already been taken by distributors - this is more profitable for the theater. Distributors usually inflate the price by about 10-15%. Therefore, it is, of course, more profitable to buy tickets at the theater itself.

2. Plan your trip to the theater in advance

By making a plan for visiting cultural events, and most importantly, thinking about buying a theater ticket two months before the performance, you can buy a ticket much cheaper than if you start looking for it a week or the day before. This rule applies to all theaters without exception. Two months before the date of the performance, it is usually quite possible to buy tickets at the box office or on the theater website.

3. Ask about entrance fees

A number of theaters have so-called entrance tickets: for a small amount you can enter the hall and sit on an empty seat or steps if there are no seats at all.

4. Remember about social discounts

In some Moscow theaters, students, pensioners and the disabled can enter for free or receive a significant discount on tickets. For example, when purchasing tickets for performances on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, students will receive a 50% discount on Theater Et Cetera. Take your student cards with you!

5. Don't forget the little things

When choosing a performance you want to go to, pay attention to which hall it will be held in. As a rule, tickets for the small stage are more expensive than for the main stage (does not apply to the Bolshoi Theater). Also, check if the performance is being performed as part of a festival. In this case, the ticket price may be higher than usual.

Now a little about the features of buying tickets to some Moscow theaters.

Everyone knows that it is impossible to get into the Bolshoi Theater, and if possible, then only for some cosmic money. Keep in mind - this is a myth. In the most famous theater in Russia, tickets are, of course, not the cheapest, but you can always come up with something.

First, the official information: you can purchase a ticket for performances in the area of ​​the Historical and New Stages of the Bolshoi Theater three months in advance. Tickets to the Beethoven Hall used to go on sale two months in advance, but now they also go on sale three months before the concert date.

Pre-sale at the theater box office begins at 10:00 on Saturdays.

Since 2005, full-time students can pay an hour before the performance for a minimum price of 100 rubles (which are then often sold at a slightly higher price to ticket speculators standing right there). This promotion applies to the New and Historical Stages (the promotion also applies to the sale of tickets).

Now it’s reality: you don’t need to come on Saturdays either at 10 am, or at 7, or at 12 pm. Or rather, you can try, but you are unlikely to buy a ticket, but you will gain the not-so-pleasant experience of standing in line (which many have already forgotten about), and in addition, you will get an idea of ​​​​the humiliating superiority of ticket scalpers over other people. Here's what a real viewer thinks:

“On Saturdays, it’s quite possible to arrive as early as possible, at 5-6 o’clock, to get into the first hundred, and you can get inexpensive tickets. Yes, along with the tickets you will receive a lot of negativity, and curse words, and these stupid resellers, you will have to stand in line for up to 8 hours, then they hand out wristbands with a number and you can go for a walk until 10.

Then the sale actually begins, you can buy two tickets for the opera and two for the ballet in one hand. It doesn't matter which ones. 4 operas or 4 ballets will not work, even if you die. But you can agree with your neighbor to take turns, if you want ballet and he wants opera, then switch.

In general, on Saturdays the Soviet Union reigns there in its worst incarnation. But you can save a lot on tickets.”

If this kind of adventure doesn’t scare you, go ahead.

And if your goal is to gain not a life experience, but an aesthetic experience, that is, going to a performance, we recommend using the official website of the Bolshoi Theater, where you can attend most performances at the theater’s official prices. Of course, there will be no tickets for some performances.

But we recommend not to despair and visit the site regularly. It often happens that today there are no tickets on the website, but tomorrow there are already tickets. True, in this case it will not be possible to plan - here, rather, the situation is reminiscent of a last-minute trip: if you come across a good option, you will have to pack up and go.

Please note that tickets for the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theater are cheaper than for the Historical Stage. Sometimes you can get to Novaya for 1,500 rubles or 1,000. Despite the fact that there are often excellent performances there: for example, the ballet “Bright Stream” or the opera “La Bohème.”

Don’t refuse concerts in the Beethoven Hall of the Bolshoi Theater (tickets are almost always freely sold at the box office and on the theater’s website, entrance to the hall is through the columns of the Bolshoi Theater). Tickets for concerts of soloists of the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra never cost more than 500 rubles, but each of these concerts is a brilliant event. The best of them are always additionally announced on the ChamberMusic.Ru website.

When purchasing tickets, do not forget to study the hall layouts. In the Beethoven Hall, if possible, do not take tickets on the very sides. Although this mainly concerns the New and Historical scenes.

If tickets are on the sides of the halls, try to take the first row. Otherwise it will be difficult to see anything. On the other hand, on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theater, never be afraid of tickets to the mezzanine in boxes 12 to 15 on the left and right sides. They are called “place 7” and “place 8”, designated as “inconvenient places” and if they go on sale, then at lower prices. Don't believe it. These are great seats - you'll sit on comfortable high bar-style stools and have a great view of the stage.

Some lovingly call him “Stasik,” which causes incredible indignation among a number of servants of this theater. However, the “middle name” of this theater is widely used. Tickets to this theater are much cheaper than to the Bolshoi, and many opera and ballet lovers love it even more for its “homey” atmosphere.

However, in MAMT there is also a risk of running into an impolite security guard - but in this case it is enough to call the shift supervisor: in this theater they monitor both the behavior of the security guards in particular and the general atmosphere into which the viewer finds himself when he opens the theater door.

Tickets can also be purchased on the website or at the box office, the prices, as we have already said, are divine, and the visibility in the hall is excellent from any seat. The exception is lodges 1 and 14. There the stage is almost invisible because of the directors' boxes. In boxes 2 and 13 there is, so to speak, “limited visibility.”

The theater was founded by the outstanding Soviet conductor Yevgeny Kolobov, is very conveniently and cozyly located on Petrovka Street and can to some extent bear the title of “a talent forge for the Bolshoi Theater”: some of the theater’s soloists recently moved to the Bolshoi, and the wonderful baritone Vasily Ladyuk, Although he remains faithful to the New Opera, he nevertheless regularly appears on the Bolshoi stage.

Tickets are relatively inexpensive, and visibility in the hall is also good from any seat.

In 1972, the long-time chief director of the Bolshoi Theater, Boris Pokrovsky, was asked to reform a small opera group touring Russia. This is how the Moscow Chamber Musical Theater arose.

At one time, the Chamber Musical Theater worked with Rodion Shchedrin, Dmitry Shostakovich, Tikhon Khrennikov, and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. From the very first days it was decided that this place would become a laboratory for modern opera, but at the same time it would introduce the viewer to opera rarities.

Here for the first time the works of modern composers who have already become classics were performed: “The Overcoat”, “The Stroller”, “The Wedding”, “The Brothers Karamazov” by Kholminov, “Life with an Idiot” by Schnittke, “Count Cagliostro” by Tariverdiev, “Poor Liza” by Desyatnikova, “The Poor people" by Sedelnikov, and "The Nose" by Shostakovich has become the hallmark of the theater. Among the rarities performed on the stage of the Chamber Musical Theater are “The Pharmacist” by Haydn, “The Water Play” by Britten, “The Rake’s Progress” by Stravinsky, “Don Juan, or the Punished Libertine” and “The Theater Director” by Mozart.

This theater is very good in some respects. In any case, there are often performances there that are not shown anywhere else. But, to be honest, we have a suspicion that tickets for it are not very difficult to get. But you can get great pleasure from a performance in this theater.

Since 2018, the theater has lost its independence and turned into the Chamber Stage named after. Pokrovsky Bolshoi Theater of Russia. Accordingly, you should look for tickets to it in the same place where tickets to the Bolshoi Theater are sold.

The world's first professional theater of opera, ballet and symphonic music for children. It bears the name of its founder - the world's first woman - opera director, outstanding cultural figure Natalia Ilyinichna Sats.

If you want to introduce your child to the world of music, the Sats Theater may be a good place to start, since the repertoire of other Moscow theaters does not include many children's performances, and it also seems that modern directors are slowly forgetting how to stage for children.

And here, for example, you can watch the stunning children's ballet “Cipollino” to the music of K. Khachaturian, directed by G. Mayorov, which used to be shown at the Bolshoi Theater, but is no longer shown.

Moscow musical theater "Helikon-Opera"

“Helikon-Opera” boasts an outstanding chief conductor - Vladimir Ponkin, as well as an artistic director - director Dmitry Bertman, who knows how to turn any of his productions, if not into a provocation, then, in any case, into something very unexpected.

For a long time, the Helikon Theater was based on Bolshoi Arbat, but already in November Moscow will experience a sensation - after a long and complex reconstruction.

At the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, ticket prices vary from 350 to 5,000 rubles. You can purchase tickets in advance at better prices. It is convenient to enjoy the performance from absolutely any row - visibility is sufficient everywhere.

In Lenkom you can also buy a ticket on the website. Here you can see the location of the seats in the hall and choose an affordable price. However, if you purchase the cheapest tickets on the dress circle for 250 rubles, you risk not seeing anything. Therefore, save wisely - the best option is 400-500 rubles per ticket.

Oleg Tabakov Theater

In a cozy “snuffbox” you can watch your favorite actors by purchasing a ticket on the website. The minimum price for a balcony is 600 rubles. But if you carefully follow the news on the theater’s website, you can easily find a place “in the sun” at a lower cost.

The cheapest tickets at Sovremennik can be purchased for 200 rubles, choosing seats in the last row on the balcony. The main thing is to come to your senses in advance and take care of this - 2-3 weeks in advance. It is almost impossible to buy a ticket on the day of the performance.

Pre-sale of tickets on the workshop website begins two months before the premiere. The lowest price is 300 rubles. By filling out the form on the website, you can “get in line” for the desired ticket. In the fields you need to enter the amount you are expecting, and you will only have to wait for the administrator to call.

Tickets to RAMT can be purchased at affordable prices, starting from 300 rubles. Please note that tickets for productions of the Little Stage and the Black Room are sold only at the box office located on Theater Square. But it’s better not to wait until the day of the premiere, as tickets sell out quite quickly. Benefits in the theater are also provided in accordance with the law, but you need to agree in advance by phone.

To the legendary theater. You can get to Vakhtangov by paying only 250 rubles. You can monitor the availability of opportunities to purchase cheap tickets on the official website. Tickets go on sale approximately 2-4 weeks in advance.

Moscow Art Theater named after. Gorky

The minimum price for tickets to this theater is 150 rubles. These are seats on the balcony in 3-5 rows. Tickets are always available, the hall is usually not full, so there are enough seats for everyone.

Et Cetera Theater

To the delight of all students at the theater, there is a 50% discount on all productions on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. To save twice as much, it is advisable to purchase and reserve seats in advance. Without special offers, tickets can be purchased for a minimum of 500 rubles.

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What benefits are available in the St. Petersburg churches of Melpomene?

It's no secret that going to the theater these days is an expensive pleasure, which is often beyond the means of students and pensioners. But as VP correspondent Alexey Blakhnov found out, you can still save money, because many theaters sell discount tickets. However, information about this is sometimes hidden almost behind seven seals.

Bolshoi Drama Theaterthem. G. A. Tovstonogova

At the BDT, everything is organized centrally: the theater has entered into agreements with student unions of St. Petersburg universities and various organizations for the social protection of the population, which provides students and members of these organizations with the opportunity to purchase tickets at a discounted price - 300 rubles.

If such an agreement with the student union of a university has not been concluded, then the student still has a chance to purchase a ticket at a favorable price, but this can only be done if there are unclaimed tickets left.

List of universities and organizations entitled to preferential visits to the BDT: Institute of Technology, University of Plant Polymers, State University, University named after. Herzen, University of Railways, Institute named after. Mechnikov, Suvorov Military School, Nakhimov Military School, Marine Corps named after. Peter the Great, the First Border Corps of the FSB, all branches of the All-Russian Society of Disabled People, the Society of Great Patriotic War Veterans, social and leisure centers of all districts. Also, discount tickets can be purchased by employees of the Military Medical Academy and members of the Theater Society.

St. Petersburg Academic Comedy Theater named after. N. P. Akimova

Discount tickets are sold here from 18.00, that is, an hour before the performance. They have a fixed price of 200 rubles, but their quantity is limited, since the 20th row of the stalls is allocated for beneficiaries, and, of course, it is not rubber.

Youth Theater on Fontanka

Here, an hour before the start of the performance, if all the tickets are sold, you can buy the so-called entrance ticket: it does not provide the right to occupy a seat, but it costs only 100 rubles. This, in fact, is where the benefits end; discounts remain: twenty days before the performance, tickets can be purchased with a 20% discount, but if you buy a ticket ten days in advance, the discount will be only 5%.

State Drama Theater "Comedian's Shelter"

The price of a discounted ticket to this theater is 20% of the full price, and you can buy it at any time. However, only students and pensioners are entitled to a discount; such tickets are sold only on weekdays and are issued exclusively in sets of two per person. And there are no more than ten of them per performance.

Alexandrinsky Theater

Discount tickets to Alexandrinka can only be purchased for repertoire performances; the discount on them is 10% and applies exclusively to tickets costing over 300 rubles. You can buy such tickets only at the theater box office from 13.00 to 14.00 and only in cash.

Theater-festival "Baltic House"

The system is familiar: you need to go to the theater box office an hour before the performance, and then, if there are seats available, you can buy a discounted ticket for only 200 rubles, but the seat will be in one of the last three rows of the auditorium. And by the way, the discount does not apply to festival events.

Mariinskii Opera House

Here everything is somewhat more complicated - an hour before the start of the performance you need to go to the administrator and find out whether there are any unsold tickets, which, in fact, are sold at discounted prices. And if you are lucky and have some tickets left, then if you have a student card or pension certificate, you can buy them for about 500 rubles (the price varies depending on the performance).

Mikhailovsky Theater

On the day of the performance, if tickets are available at the theater box office, there is a 50% discount for students and pensioners (upon presentation of an ISIC card, student card or pension certificate). Also encouraging is the promotion, which bears the self-explanatory name “Student Wednesday”: on Wednesdays, students can buy any ticket for 700 rubles. Benefits apply only to repertoire events.

Theatrical art does not lose relevance over time and contributes to the spiritual and intellectual development of the individual. Visiting the theater is the most prestigious and expensive pleasure. The use of promotional codes allows art lovers to attend their favorite shows without compromising the family budget.

Where to get a discount on a theater ticket

Human cultural development should not take place at the expense of other needs. Theater studios very often attract viewers with tempting promotions and lucrative offers. Customers who place an order through the official website of the theater receive the maximum benefit when purchasing tickets. Valid coupons are posted in social networking groups, on posters, advertising brochures and flyers.

Distributors sell theater tickets up to 20-30% more expensive, so it’s cheaper to pay for your visit at the box office with a 10% discount. The best deals for theatrical performances appear one to two weeks after the release of the play. At this time, ticket prices are reduced to 10-25%.

Most institutions support young people and therefore provide a discount on a student card. An hour before the start of the performance, students of Russian universities receive a 50% discount at the Bolshoi Drama Theater. As part of the “Student Wednesdays” campaign, the Mikhailovsky Theater sells tickets for 1,000 rubles. By purchasing paired tickets for the opera and ballet, visitors receive a 20% discount.

Yandex.Afisha regularly publishes the best discount coupons and advantageous offers for attending theater performances. For example, the “Theatre.Go” promotion offers a discount of up to 90%. The popular, trusted website biglion.ru daily presents more than ten coupons with discounts of up to 70% on productions, operas and concerts.

Promotional codes for the theater are provided by partners and sponsors. For example, when paying with a Sberbank bank card, the client gets back up to 50% of the ticket price in bonuses. In summer, all spectators receive discounts of 20% or more, as consumer demand falls. Some institutions provide visitors with an entrance ticket, the cost of which is up to 70% lower than the standard ticket.

What kind of discount coupons are there?

The most popular type of coupon is a certificate: the client pays a small amount and enjoys a maximum discount when purchasing a ticket to a theater performance. The second most common type of incentive is a reduction in the cost of services when the check amount reaches a certain threshold.

Theaters often publish discount coupons for purchasing multiple tickets at once. Spectators pay for the last, extreme, remote seats and receive significant benefits. For children, disabled people, students, large families, and pensioners there are personal discounts of up to 50%. On international holidays and name days, additional bonuses of 10% are active.

How to activate a promotional code

Discount coupons are activated upon payment. It is enough to enter a digital or alphabetic combination in a special field, and the cost of the ticket will be recalculated automatically. If the coupon is purchased at the cash desk of the institution, the discount is provided by the cashier upon presentation of the coupon or passport. During ticket sales and promotional days, you will not need to enter promotional codes: the purchase price includes all bonuses.

TOP 5 theaters where promotions are held

The five most popular theater institutions that are ready to offer customers maximum discounts:

Theater is a special, inspiring world. Spectators receive positive emotions and have a good time. On weekdays there are promotional codes for a discount of 10% or more for all customers. Special offers for discounts of up to 50% are available for students, pensioners, and people with disabilities. Ticket prices are reduced during pre-sale and also a few minutes before the start of the performance.

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What categories of citizens of retirement age have benefits and discounts on travel?

Receive benefits and discounts on travel to the Russian Federation they have a right such categories of citizens of retirement age as:

If we talk about benefits, then preferential categories of pensioners have the right to a discount or complete avoidance of payment for transport such as:

• railway transport (commuter trains and electric trains);
• travel by any type of transport free of charge to undergo a course of treatment or rehabilitation;
• public ground transport;
• underground transport (metro);
• air transport.

What discounts and on what transport do citizens of retirement age have?

Railway transport (electric trains, trains)

Citizens of retirement age have the full right to free use of commuter rail transport, including electric trains.

Pensioners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (including former military personnel), as well as disabled people, have every right to exercise the right to free travel to the place of their treatment or rehabilitation course once a year.

Free travel is provided in both directions.

Air travel

Today there is a state program, thanks to which every pensioner is entitled to a discount of up to 30%. However, you can’t get a plane ticket everywhere. We are talking about bindings within the country. Currently, about 30 cities participate in the program.

To receive a discount, simply present your pensioner ID at the checkout and find out what discount is offered.

Each airline offers its own conditions for retirees.

City public

The right to free use of city public transport, with the exception of taxis they have a right:

Suburban

If we talk about suburban transport, then this subgroup can be divided into several categories:

In the first case, the benefit applies to the same categories of pensioners as indicated above (benefits for railway transport).

In the second case, right to free travel have:

• pensioners who were participants in the Second World War, including: home front workers and owners of the “Resident of Besieged Leningrad” badge, victims of fascism;
• having awards of heroes of labor of the USSR or the Russian Federation, including their closest relatives.

Receipt procedure

Citizens of retirement age have every right to receive a discounted travel ticket.

The procedure for receiving it is as follows:

To issue a travel ticket, you must prepare the following: list of documents:

• original and copy of the applicant’s passport;
• original and copy of pension certificate;
• ITU certificate if the pensioner is disabled.

After this, the pensioner should contact the territorial department of social protection of the population and provide documents. In addition, a statement is written together with social security employees.

You can get a card at the metro ticket office or at the Autotrans branch. Employees of the social protection department will provide more detailed information about receipt.

Single personalized discount ticket for pensioners. What is this? How can I get

Under the definition “Single discount ticket” This means the same travel ticket, only with a small nuance - it can be used in any transport, both above-ground and underground.

For his registration must provide:

• pensioner's passport;
• pensioner's ID;
• if the pensioner is disabled - an ITU certificate.

The process of its registration is completely identical, as in the previous version, only you can go directly to the metro, railway and other ticket offices.

The card itself is similar to a bank card, but is used for discounted travel on public transport.

Step-by-step instructions for replenishing a discounted travel ticket

To top up a discounted travel ticket, you must go to any self-service terminal that allows you to make such top-ups.

Replenishment algorithm is as follows:

If a situation arises in which money could not be credited to the card for technical reasons, a corresponding notification will appear on the monitor screen. In case of such a situation, you can contact the specified contact information on the terminal and then the operator will carry out this operation manually. For this reason, there is no need to worry.

It is also worth paying attention to the fact that if the deposited amount exceeds the specified amount, the terminal may offer to transfer the balance to a mobile phone number.

Discount tickets to theaters in Moscow and St. Petersburg

Pensioners have the right to purchase tickets to theaters in Moscow and St. Petersburg at discounts. Of course, different theaters have their own discounts, but they still exist, which is good news.

Speaking of discounts in Moscow theaters, then the situation is as follows:

If we talk about pensioners living in St. Petersburg, then in this city the situation is as follows:

• Mikhailovsky Theater. In this theater, pensioners have the right to purchase tickets with a 50% discount exclusively on the day of the performance. The only condition is the availability of tickets at the box office;
• Alexandrovsky Theater Pensioners purchase tickets with a 10% discount, provided that the ticket price without a discount is more than 300 rubles;
• Theater “On Liteiny”. Tickets can be purchased at competitive prices (for only 100 rubles) for all performances, but there is one condition - they can be purchased 30 minutes before the start, and if they are still on sale;
• Mariinskii Opera House. In this theater, the cost of tickets can reach simply unaffordable figures. But at the same time, a 50% discount is provided for pensioners. You can buy tickets on social networks in official groups. After pre-booking, tickets can be purchased at the theater box office two days in advance.

As you can see, despite the expensive tickets to theaters in our country, pensioners can count on certain discounts for a wonderful time.

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