Carmen Tickets

One of the best performances I have ever seen, everything was amazing.

The Opera was performed beautifully!! The music was moving and well played. The set was very nice and I liked the fact that it was sloped forward so you didn't miss anything.

Carmen in Appleton was a quality production with great execution. The theater is well sized and laid out, staff was competent and helpful. The production while not a lavish was enjoyable and well done. The Appleton theater is a more casual and friendly experience, reflecting the expectations of the audience and the community. The symphony was fantastic, the performers were well trained and gave a great performance easily overcoming the language barrier of the material for most audience goers. The lead performers were excellent and well experienced to carry their respective roles. And I found the overall quality of the performance to be even better than expected and a fantastic evening. I hope to see more opera at the Appleton theater. It could make me a ticket subscriber, even though I am about 2 hours away.

Everything was excellant from the beginning to the end. The singers were amazing. There are really no words to describe how I acttually fell about the performance.

I would definitely recommend Carmen to a friend with one caviat, "It's long. Eat dinner first.". This would be my only major error of the evening as it started at 7:30pm and didn't end until 11:00pm. I was starving. But Kate Aldrich was spectacular. I would have loved to see a man that could have kept up with her larger than life voice alas none of the men on stage with her in this performance could do that. She is a force. Beautiful and alluring, she captured everyone's full attention.

Classic opera tends to revolve around a very simplistic story. The moral instruction of this opera is: settle down with a nice girl, don’t break your mother’s heart, and stay away from those wild gypsy women! As with most classic opera, the dialog tends to move slow and be repetitive. However, the stage sets were excellent, the troupe acted and sang very well, and the music, which is what I think most people see the opera for, was performed by one of the best pit orchestras I have heard. Even the acoustics of the Detroit Opera House seemed better than usual. There were four acts with three intermissions but each one was shorter than the previous. The show took most of the evening, running from 7:30 to a little after 10:30. Our rumps were a little sore by the end of the night.

It was my first oprah and I loved it! The cast and music is outstanding. The video screen operator could improve.

Carmen was my husband and my first opera, and it's a great first opera for anyone to go to because it has singing, dancing, and great choreography. Carmen and Micaela were great, although all the male characters could do with some improvement; Jose wasn't that great, and Escamillo was even worse.