Opera is traditionally an upper-class preserve.
I cannot see it being such a draw if lottery tickets were called opera tickets and people were invited to purchase them but not actually allowed to watch the opera. I can feel Karl Marx clawing his way out of thes grave at this point and as few people have any desire to listen to his particular brand of techno-babble, we mopve on. So come on lottery losers you have nothing to lose but your money. The Grand National. Now this really is a national institution with all the problems this entails.