Before the performance Read the play or opera or read articles, critiques or summaries about the work in the library Listen to the music or read about the musical work. Attend the pre-concert lecture. The Kennedy Center in Washington DC provides an appropriate model for dress. America s art center is accessible to everyone. One can see concert-goers in formal attire and tee shirts with blue jeans at the same event.
Art is a celebration of life.
If you can t be art wear art. Baseball caps are not art. Taking flash photography and using video lights is never appropriate. Flash and video lights in a performer's eyes can be dangerous to the performer. Flashes disrupt the lighting effects, and the pleasure of the other audience members who came to see the performance.