Tickets were actually released at roughly 8:45am, 15 minutes before their scheduled release. I stayed in the queue for about 40 minutes and wound up getting a $300 ticket in the 3rd mezzanine. Better than nothing.
"Mostly, I loved the size of these people's emotions. Nobody has emotions this size anymore. Outsized emotions. Operatic emotions. Kushemski and Vanda are like Tristan and Isolde, they're Paolo and Francesca. Nobody's in total thrall like this anymore. Nobody's overcome by passion like this, or goes through this kind of rage." Thomas, Venus in Fur