The MN Opera website says they offer tours of the ...

The MN Opera website says they offer tours of the staging and costume areas of their administrative building. Under a section of their website titled Tours they provide a phone number, name and, email of who to contact to schedule a tour. The first time I called the number provided I was transferred around then landed with the original person I called (who was listed as the person one should schedule a tour with). He finally just said he didn t know why I would want to schedule a tour at that time and to call back in a month. This didn t make sense to me but he clearly didn t want to be bothered so I said thank you and that was the end of the conversation. I called back in a mouth and was told that they would not do a tour for groups under 15 even though their website says they would even do tours for individuals and we were a group of 7. I then called back a weeks later because our group of interested people had grown and the first person I got a hold of said they didn t do tours then said wait maybe we do and transferred me to the same guy I spoke to last time. I told him I now had a group of 15 and he said no we can t accommodate you because that would exclude any walk ins who wanted a tour. So I asked could we do a walk in with a smaller group and he said no not really you have to schedule (which is what I had been trying to do). None of this made any sense my only guess is that despite advertising tours they don t actually like to give them?