San Antonio Opera Tickets

I love opera and this opera was such a joy and uplifting. The men's chorus started out low but built up and was great. The women's chorus was articulate and full. I plan to buy season tickets for 2011-2012. Keep up the good work! The only criticism I have is that I sat in the first row at 110.00 for my seat, and was constantly bothered by the high railing. Obviously, whoever designed the height never sat in these seats.

Enjoyable performance and beautiful singing voices. Great experience. The one negative was the uncomfortabe temperature (too warm) in the mezzinine section. I'm looking forward to the next opera coming in September.

This was my first opera and I must say that I am looking forward to the next one. Cherubino was a male part but I fell in love with Jossie Perez performance. She was just spectacular. The whole play was great and not understanding much Italian myself, the subtitles above the stage helped greatly to follow along.

I did not like the male character, Chérubin being played by a female. It was distracting.

If you missed this opera, you missed and thouroughly entertaining and superb performance from a superb cast. The venue is beautiful as well as the area it is in. I recommend you attend any performance there.

Beautiful voices, but they didn't make it very well out into the theater. Wonderful set and costumes and the renovated Lila Cockrell Theater is fantastic. Why oh why, though, at Lila Cockrell do they persist in seating patrons after the start of the performance?

In overall I think the opera was Ok and I had a enjoyable night. Here, some thoughts about the performance: Pros: - Good scenarios - Good costumes - The Countess was pretty good Cons: - The overture was played in the third act!!! - Figaro without shirt in the beginning of the opera!!! - The subtitles were completely unsynchronized - Both the Count and Figaro were not so good

My opera experience is very limited, but I felt the actual performance was well done. I had one major complaint. Translation was presented on a screen over the stage, which would have been a nice feature if it had been done correctly. But the person advancing the lines was incompetent. Sometimes, he was behind by several minutes, and then would suddenly catch up by flying through several lines in seconds. Other times, he would get ahead and then skip back. This made the feature a negative distraction. I don't speak Italian, but would have enjoyed the show more without incompetently presented translation. Also, the translation had several easily noticeable typos, and sometimes didn't fit on the projection screen. As far as I'm concerned, testing the equipment, proof-reading the text, and practicing the cues and timing relative to the show should be just as important to the person responsible for that activity as preparing for the performance should be for the on-stage performance.