I'm seeing a friend sing tonight, and I plan to spend the rest of the weekend watching TV, reading slashy fantasy novels, and eating my way through the fresh fruit and vegetables in my refrigerator.

Symphony/philharmonic in a heartbeat.

I like opera music, but strictly in instrumental score form. (How's that for contrary?)

I'm having leftover Chinese food for lunch. NOM.

I would love opera season tickets, but not to the local opera. They'll do one grand opera a season, then call the "Greatest Hits of Puccini" or "The Genius of Gilbert & Sullivan" performances opera. There's not a big market for more than one true full-length grand opera a season around here. So they fill it out with classical singing of whatever sort. And art songs make me want to strangle things.

I like the symphony/philharmonic more than the ballet or opera. Maybe I would like opera more now, but I have given it many tries over the years -- it just seems like something I'd like! And yet, not really my thing. I just like lieder.

I agree, concert music is my first preference. Ballet comes next, but only classical ballet with concert music and a full story. I love certain operas and trying to appreciate it more.

Gilbert & Sullivan trumps all.

ETA: The year I had season tickets to the symphony, and my sister had gotten season tickets to the opera, and I was dating someone with season tickets to the ballet? Heaven.

I am trying to make up Chore Plans for the weekend. Not so fun, really, but need must. On the fun end, my plan is to take the kids to the pool, buy them ice creams, and take them to Cali n Tito's for dinner, which is a really fun beachy-style Mexican place, nice in the summer since few drunken students (it's BYOB).

Y'all need to cozy up to someone who works at the Symphony. In Milwaukee I can pretty much go whenever I want, and occasionally that extends to Chicago. I think my dad goes a couple of times a month at least. Employee comp tickets FTW.

Of course, Chicago does have the option of free concerts of the Grant Park Symphony at Millenium Park during the summer!

Yes, we love comp tickets. That's how I saw Arabian Nights at Lookingglass last night.

I'm fairly picky about what I want to see, which is why I loved season tickets at Lincoln Center when you could pretty much pick out your 5 favorite concerts of the year.

I looked into splurging and getting something here, but was underwhelmed by most of the programs offered.

The one thing I really wanted to see was the SF Symphony's semi-staged Iolanthe, but it's the weekend of the F2F.