Booking Opens for Gianni Schicchi

Online booking is open for Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, the Department of Western Music’s production of the one-act comic opera.

The early-bird release is drawing to a close — almost two-thirds of it is gone. It is limited to the first 100 tickets, not to the first 100 seats in the hall. When they are taken, the price goes up for everyone.

Booking, in four steps

1. Open the event page and choose your evening.
2. Pick a seat on the hall map. What you see is live — a seat that has gone is gone.
3. Pay online. UPI — GPay, PhonePe, Paytm or any UPI app — goes through in seconds and is what we recommend.
4. One email arrives with everything: a ticket file for each seat, your payment receipt, and a Scan Pass button for every seat.

If nothing arrives, check the spam folder first, then write to musicstudiobookings@christuniversity.in — the ticket can be reissued to the same address.

The hall map. Colour is the price band, and it redraws as seats go.

Your details. The name you give here is printed on every ticket in the order.

Paid. The email is already on its way.

Full walkthrough with screenshots: How to book.

Getting in on the night

Your Scan Pass is the ticket. In your email, under Your mobile entry, there is one dark button for every seat — Row B · Seat 1 — Open Scan Pass, and another for Seat 2. Press it on the phone you will bring, and it shows the code we scan. One code admits one person, so a booking for three is three codes.

Press each one before you leave home, while you still have a good signal, and leave the page open. Data at the gate can be slow, and a pass you have already opened needs none.

A Scan Pass. One for each seat, and this is what we scan.

Have it ready twice: at the campus gate, where security check them before letting anyone through, and again at the door of the auditorium. Turn your screen brightness up — that is the difference between a scan that takes a second and one that takes ten.

The ticket file attached to your email is a keepsake, and a handsome one. It carries no code, so do not rely on a printout at the door — the ticket itself says as much, in the corner: for entry, open Scan Pass in email or account.

The ticket attached to your email. Its corner says where entry actually happens.

If the email has gone missing, nothing is lost. Everything you have booked lives in your account — open it on your phone and you will not need the email at all.

Come early enough to walk from the gate to the hall. Central Campus is large, and the performance starts on time.

Before you come

Gianni Schicchi is Puccini’s comedy, first staged in New York in 1918: an hour in one room in Florence in 1299, with a corpse, a will, and a family who would rather have the money.

If you want to know what you are walking into, the Journal has published an introduction to the opera and an account of how Puccini’s orchestra was brought into our rehearsal room. Rehearsal reports continue through September.

Book your seat

On stage, nine relatives spend an hour fighting over a single document. Yours takes about a minute to arrive.