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诸神的黄昏
We’ll trade you tickets for decent costumes
那些贵宾票，我们卖给你
GETTING a seat at the annual Bayreuth Festival of Richard Wagner’s operas is about as easy as shaking off a dwarf’s curse: the average waiting time is nine years. But things may change. On June 15th the Bundesrechnungshof, Germany’s federal audit office, recommended that the festival, which gets over �5m ($7.2m) a year of public money, should change the way it allocates tickets.
一年一度的拜罗伊特理查德•瓦格纳音乐节开幕了，要从中谋得一席并不难，大致就跟解除一位小矮人的咒语差不多，平均等上9年就好。但世事无常。6月15日，德国联邦审计院（Bundesrechnungshof）建议这项每年获拨公帑超过500万欧元（720万美元）的音乐节，应转变票务分配方式。
Only 40% are sold directly to the public—a mere 16% if it’s a premiere. Murky quotas take care of the rest. The Society of Friends of Bayreuth gets 24% for its members. Around 30% go to such worthy causes as travel agents, who wrap them into hugely expensive tours, and corporate sponsors, for impressing (or perhaps intimidating) clients.
只有40%的票直接卖给了公众，而要是首演剧目，则该数字仅有16%。余下的票都暗箱操作分掉了。“拜罗伊特之友协会”（The Society of Friends of Bayreuth）拿走了24%的票给会员。约30%的票落到了一些有利可图的团体头上，如旅行社跟赞助企业。前者把这些票跟豪华旅游路线捆绑推销，后者想给客户留下深刻印象，抑或震他们一下。
Sponsors must foster a long-term relationship to have a solid chance of ticket quotas, apparently. The process is far from transparent. The German Confederation of Trade Unions has one closed performance for its own big night out. Loyal trade unionists who are not Wagner fans (such people exist, believe it or not) have reportedly been able to sell their seats for a profit. There are moves to stop this practice.
显然，为了有十足机会获得票额，赞助商须跟音乐节组委会建立长期合作关系。这一过程极不透明。德国工会联合会（The German Confederation of Trade Unions）拥有一场专属狂欢夜表演，不对外开放。而信不信由你，有些并不热爱瓦格纳却对工会忠心耿耿的家伙，据报道，会中途离场卖掉自己的席位赚点小钱。已采取了行动制止这种行为。
Although ticket sales cover barely half the running costs—staging the end of the world is not cheap—the festival gives away 2,650 tickets a year to artists, its own staff, journalists and “special cases”. That reduces even further the tickets available to Joe Public. Opera is great art, and part of Germany’s heritage. But the state has no business subsidising corporate entertainment.
要表现出世界末日可不便宜，故而音乐节运营成本高昂，但尽管票务销售只占其中一半，音乐节每年仍要赠送2650张票给艺术家、自己的员工、记者以及“某些特例”。平头百姓能拿到的票越来越少。歌剧是一门伟大的艺术，也是德国文化传统的一部分。但德国政府资助企业娱乐活动，实属不该。
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注：Götterdämmerung
即《诸神的黄昏》，既是指是北欧神话，表示预言中的一连串巨大劫难，包括造成许多重要神祇死亡的大战（奥丁、索尔、弗雷、海姆达尔、霜巨人、洛基等），无数的自然浩劫，之后整个世界沉没在水底。然而最终世界复苏了，存活的神与两名人类重新建立了新世界。这是北欧神话极重要的一部份，也是许多学术研讨与理论的主题。同时又是指理查德•瓦格纳的同名歌剧。
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