After taking a season off to promote her latest album Lotus, Christina Aguilera has returned to judge The Voice: Season 5 and also contributed a song to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack.
Introduced to the world as a member of the New Mickey Mouse Club in 1994 (along with Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Ryan Gosling, among others), Christina Aguilera first gained notoriety as a solo artist with a song from the Disney film Mulan,” Reflection.” The song peaked at #20 and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song. She followed that success with her debut album, which spawned the hit singles Genie In A Bottle and What A Girl Wants, both chart-toppers. From that point on, Aguilera’s career has been non-stop, with chart-topping hits like “Beautiful” and “Dirrty.” In 2003, Aguilera’s co-headlining Justified & Stripped tour with Justin Timberlake generated nearly $20 million dollars in ticket sales. With her signature powerhouse voice and trained dance moves, Aguilera’s concerts are filled with energetic, thrilling performances. She brought that energy to her collaboration with Lil’ Kim, Mya, and Pink on the classic disco song “Lady Marmalade,” which spent five weeks at the top of the Hot 100 Billboard Chart. Aguilera also records in Spanish as well as in English, and plans to release new material in 2014.
Voltaire was a great venue- CHRISTINA lit the room on “Fire.” She’s beautiful and her voice is amazing—- im so glad we went. I hope she tours again- Toledo could use her energy ❤️
Christina didn’t appear on stage until 11:30pm and was finished by 12:30pm. Other acts did perform dances but nobody seemed interested and a lot of people were playing on their phones waiting for Christina. When she only performed for 60mins I could tell people were disappointed. She was amazing for those 60mins. I think for the price of the tickets everyone deserved more and I think it could have started earlier. Garth performed for 2hours for a similar price and Mariah performed for 90mins for similar price. Also shortening some of her best songs was disappointing.. people wanted to see the Christina they’ve known for years and to sing full versions of her greatest hits!
A lot of hidden charges at the door and she only performed for 45 mins.
I absolutely loved my seats, seeing her perform live especially songs from Burlesque was fan girling, only complaint is wish it was longer
The only thing I have to say about the show itself is that it was AMAZING!! All of it. We were unaware that there is a $500 minimum per 2 people for drinks that MUST be met or they will move you to standing room only, even if you spent more on a ticket for a table!! Nowhere on Ticketmaster was this information available. We were told once we sat down. We decided to pay it cause we loved our sets, but other people were moved to standing room only cause they couldn’t afford or pay the $500. Crazy! Other than that, it was a great show! Christina was amazing!
They said the show was at 9:45pm. We got there at 9 and she wasn’t on stage until 11:45pm We were standing for almost 3h cause we didd’t to lose our seats. They should be more clear about what time the show actually starts.
While we enjoyed Christina’s performance, it was cut short. According to all the review and social media, it was supposed to be an 1 hour and 45 minutes, but on this particular night, it was only 1 hour and 15 minutes. According to outside sources it was Christina’s boyfriend birthday. That being said, I feel cheated that we missed out on 30 minutes of additional songs. It was a special weekend for my wife and I, since Christina is my wife’s favorite singer and she had never seen her before, she was so excited to go and see her. Again, while her show was amazing, she should have performed for the duration stated.
I got table tickets for this Christina Aguilera based on the recommendation of the concierge at the Palazzo. And I got tickets for Meet and Greet because it was my wife’s birthday coming up and she really likes Christina. When we got to the Voltaire, I had to give up my credit card for the $1000 minimum table charge. Then we were escorted to our table and seats. The seats were packed in so tight with other table seats that you could not move. And we had a spill at the table when one of the seats hit the table. About 10 pm we were told to head up to the gathering area for the Meet and Greet with Christina. We had to wait for over an hour before we could meet with Christina. Then we were getting ready to meet Christina, we were told there would be autographs allowed, no talking to Christina and only her photographer would be allowed to take pictures. And this was for $1000 for each of us. My wife was so upset she did not even want to take a picture with Christina. Because of the time we had to wait, we missed the opening performance. When Christina started her performance, the instrumentation was so loud you really could not hear Christina most of the time. Given the cost of the tickets ($1,000 for 4 people), the Meet and Greet tickets ($2,000) and the bar tab ($1,300 for the 4 of us) to me this concert was not worth the money spent. I would not recommend this concert or this venue at all.
We found the sound to be tinny, distorted and screechy at times. Christina is not a big enough part of her own show, with the opening act and lengthy interludes with backup singers feeling like too much.
Cristina Aguilera was great. She started very late but didn't disappoint. When we booked this show though we had to agree to $250 cover charge for both of us and when we got to the door, we were told that it was $500.- We were scammed, if we didn't agree they wouldn't let us in and worst of all they kept our Driver License and credit card and wouldn't give it back until the end, so we couldn't leave early as we wanted. Again, Cristina Aguilera was great, but the venue is a rip off.
