Arizona Opera Tickets

Cosi fan tutte was fantastic! My two daughters and I enjoyed the performance. Coffee and Desert at the Compass Room is a great finish to this Venue

Excellent performances, production, staging. Fun and crisp interpretation. Very enjoyable experience. Five *****

Heavenly voices, excellent orchestra. Great night for Mozart's fans.

Great music and singing. Good, funny story. Amazing opera--no one died. Costume and set design were sparse. Looked like trying too hard to save money.

We tremendously enjoyed the performance. Everything was well done. The scenery and the costumes were first class. Orchestra was great. Performers did an outstanding job, especially the sopranos. The two arias were beautiful. The music was beautiful, some of the prettiest we've heard in a long time. We would highly recommend this performance to everyone. We were so pleased to see several teenagers and younger in the audience. I sat next to a teenager and couldn't help but glance at her reactions to the performance. She was leaning forward in her seat and by her facial expressions you could tell she was really into it.

It was a hodge-podge of attendees. I actually apologized to my friends who went with me and told them I had no idea I had purchased tickets in the coughing section. It was so bad that I sat next to two people who dropped what we called their "junior mints" on the floor during the performance... and I can't help but add the person who dropped a glad on the floor during the second act. Also, why is it that some people do not know how to let people pass them when in their seat.... this crafty woman who flashed her cell phone everywhere during the first act separated her legs to let us pass, which made me feel like I had to assist her in delivering a baby. I am also curious as to why my friends and I were "harumphed" during the first act by some sensitive ladies who left us with the impression that all opera is serious and opera buffa must not include laughter from the audience. As to the performance: I was delighted by the directors interpretation and found it charming. My favorite performer of the evening was Despina, though I lamented the fact that I just could not hear anything as she played the notary. Having said that, I loved the aria sung by Fiordiligi as she pondered her choices.

Mozart was a genius. His music is breathtaking. The musicians were very accomplished. But, the props ---- where were they? A bare stage with folding chairs, risers, a couple of street lamps. Is this what opera has become? Had to leave early.

Twyla Robinson has a nice voice. She was the best at the end of Act I and in all thru ActII. As her voice matures and in productions that help her develop acting skills I think she will be very good. Really someon to watch....many of todays great Sopranos are at their best in their mid-40s+. Maureen O'Flynn was wonderful...She (among all the others) really became her character Despina. You go girl.

Congratulations! The Cast,..... the scenography......., the music.......everything was charming! Thanks Mozart and thanks Arizona Opera for giving us such an uplifting and beautiful evening! You were great!

Overall, an adequate performance. Score was a bit rushed in places, resulting in loss of some Mozartian dynamics. Sets were mediocre, insipid and banal. Overacting was typical, especially Michael Mayes. However, he redeemed himself with his excellent baritone tone, range and projection. Maureen O'Flynn seemed to be having fun but could have taken her singing more seriously. Caitlin Lynch's singing was beautiful at times, but she was out of breath imminently and was too pianissimo at places. Lauren McNeese was good at times, but a bit tentative in places resulting in her being lost in the harmony. For me, the highlight of the evening was Scott Ramsay, whose tenor solos where sublime moments of beauty, tenderness, and rapture. His 'sigh of love was a sweet refreshment to any heart' capable of experiencing genuine human emotion.