OPERA and Abba are drawing Singaporeans who love a good deal.

Half-price tickets to these shows are the ones most in demand in Keppel Nights, a programme where the corporation picks up the tab for half the ticket price in two categories.

Discounted tickets for Puccini's Turandot by the Singapore Lyric Opera, playing this weekend, have all been snapped up. Those for the musical Abba Mania in October are almost sold out.

In all, about 30 per cent of the tickets available in the scheme have been taken up, a week after the launch of the website for the scheme.

Arts-goers can log on to the website, www.keppelnights.com, to get a password, which they have to give when they buy tickets through Sistic.

Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times' Life!.