Streisand criticized for high tix prices

Streisand criticized for high tix prices



Italian consumer groups want authorities to cancel Barbra Streisand's concert in Rome next month because of excessive ticket prices.

The Adusbef and Codacons groups urged the city of Rome and the Italian Olympic Committee to deny permission for Streisand to perform at the Stadio Flaminio on June 15. It is the 65-year-old singer's first-ever concert in Italy and the start of her European tour.

The ticket prices, which range from just under $200 to more than $1,200, are "absurd and shameful," the groups said in a statement Monday.

The 24,000-seat stadium, owned by the city and managed by the Committee, "is public property and cannot be used for immoral deals that are shameful to a civilized country," the statement said.

Concert organizers weren't immediately available for comment.

All but the cheapest tickets were available for purchase Tuesday on the Internet.

Streisand's monthlong European tour also includes concerts in Austria, France, Ireland and Britain.

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Streisand angers fans with £500 tickets
By Nicole Martin
Last Updated: 1:52am BST 02/05/2007



For Barbra Streisand fans, it was the news they had been awaiting for more than a decade.

But their excitement at the prospect of the singer coming to Britain for the first time in 13 years quickly turned to disappointment after it emerged that tickets would cost up to £500.

The cheapest seats for Streisand's concert at the O2 Arena, formerly the Millennium Dome, in Greenwich, south-east London, will cost £100.

advertisementTour promoters defended the high prices, claiming that the concert on July 18 would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. "Seeing Barbra Streisand in concert is a pretty momentous occasion that ranks up there with seeing Sinatra or Elvis," said a spokesman. "If you think that FA Cup final tickets are going for £1,600, you get some sort of context."

The 65-year-old singer will be backed by a 58-piece orchestra in the show, which will also take place in Vienna, Paris, Nice and Dublin.

Part of the proceeds will go to the Barbra Streisand Foundation, which supports charitable causes.

Tickets go on sale on Friday but fans are threatening to boycott the concert because of the high costs. One woman posted on a fans' website: "I've gone off her now. What a rip-off! Fans waiting forever for a concert and she does this!"



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