The arts are a hot ticket in Madison, Wisconsin, where the local opera company is about to hike some of its tickets past $100 for the first time, and other local arts groups which have begun selling tickets for next season “are reporting brisk subscription sales that rival or surpass last year’s by substantial percentages… [providing] more proof that the growing and increasingly competitive arts scene in Madison is still not showing any sign of a shakedown or contraction from being overextended.”