{"id":228371,"date":"2026-03-13T23:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/the-saga-that-never-ends-chalamet-gate-boosts-opera-ticket-sales\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:41:10","slug":"the-saga-that-never-ends-chalamet-gate-boosts-opera-ticket-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/the-saga-that-never-ends-chalamet-gate-boosts-opera-ticket-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"The saga that never ends: Chalamet-gate boosts opera ticket sales"},"content":{"rendered":"


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One good thing that’s come out of this whole Timothee controversy? Increased opera ticket sales. Seattle Opera told NPR’s Marketplace that it made $28,800 last weekend from people who used its TIMOTHEE discount code. The discount code was for 14%, <\/a>a reference to Chalamet’s comment that he just lost 14 cents in viewership.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sold a total of 203 tickets with that discount code over the weekend, bringing in 61% more in sales than we estimate we would have seen without it,” according to the Seattle Opera.<\/p>\n

Hawai\u2019i Opera Theatre, which also used a TIMOTHEE discount code, made $7,800. Normally, the Hawai\u2019i Opera Theatre makes between $250 and $1,200 over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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ONTD, have you bought any opera tickets? <\/i>
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One good thing that’s come out of this whole Timothee controversy? Increased opera ticket sales. Seattle Opera told NPR’s Marketplace that it made $28,800 last weekend from people who used its TIMOTHEE discount code. The discount code was for 14%, a reference to Chalamet’s comment that he just lost 14 cents in viewership. \u201cWe sold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-228371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}