Two of the best loved operas in Santa Cruz auditorium over next few weeks

[Janet]

Two of the best loved operas are being performed in the Santa Cruz auditorium over the next few weeks, namely Verdi's La Traviata on 25, 27 and 29 September, and Mozart's Magic Flute on 13 and 14 October. The three performances of La Traviata will be given at 8.30pm with tickets ranging from €15-65, while the Magic Flute will have two performances each day, at midday and 6pm, with tickets costing just €10. There are further details on both opera productions behind the links on THIS page, and tickets can be bought from the box office, from agencias de viajes Carrefour and Halcón Viajes agencies, or by phone on  902 317 327 between 10am and 3pm Monday to Friday or 10am to 2pm Saturday. They can also be bought online from the auditorium HERE.

[El Profesor]

The Magic Flute looks like an amateur performance, but it's a good one to take the kids to.

[Perikles]

The Magic Flute looks like an amateur performance,

It is also very difficult to perform. I've heard disasterous Queens of the Night which I remember decades later.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Anybody thinking of La Traviata?

[Janet]

I've just been online to look at the seating costs, and it turns out that the €15 tickets are for disabled spectators only. All other seats are either €45 or €65, cheaper being back and sides, more expensive being main central block.

To check availability you have to go THIS auditorium page, click on comprar, choose a date and time and then you get a popup box showing seats.

[Perikles]

It's my favourite opera, and we have a CD and a DVD of brilliant performance. I have also seen it on stage several times, good performances and not expensive. The cash is just not there to spend 90 or 120 euros on 2 tickets, although I might have been OK with half that. These prices are ridiculous, IMO.

As for the Magic F, this is one I really do prefer as a recording because I can relax knowing that the singer will actually manage to hit the right notes.

[El Profesor]

These prices are ridiculously cheap ....... to see a full cast opera with a symphony orchestra. Less than half the prices in Madrid (and better acoustics IMO).
It must be subsidised.
I think they also manage it by using The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra ..... which is of course massively subsidised, and they usually use local singers from the conservatory for the minor roles.

Unfortunately I'm feeling it a bit tight over these months ..... back to school and all that, got to buy a new violin ..... so I doubt I will make it this year.

But in my opinion this is a fantastic price, an absolute bargain.

[Perikles]

But in my opinion this is a fantastic price, an absolute bargain.

Even if it is, we still can't afford it.  Who can in Tenerife?

The cost would be ten times that of the CD. If you play the CD ten times, then the live performance is 100 times more expensive than listening at home. Nor at home do I get the idiot behind me unwrapping boiled sweets. OK I get the howling dog instead.

But seriously, I hate being in a crowd of strangers.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Count me in with the people who think it is too expensive.  I might pay that for a production in London or New York, with well known/regarded singers and orchestra, but will pass on this one.

Then again I have been known to spend in that neighbourhood for musical theatre here at Christmastime.   

[Janet]

half northern European ctiy prices, OK, so not too far out of line with comparative wages. But how many in northern European cities can afford culture? And in a place with one of the worst unemployment rates in a country with the worst unemployment in Europe ...

There still seem to be lots of tickets available. I'd love to be able to see final stats on how many seats were empty. If it were just €10 each cheaper we'd have gone .... I think that might be true of many people.