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ATTENTION, le cirque du soleil vend des places avec vues limitées au même prix que des places normales sans en avertir le consommateur. Quand vous l'apprenez, ils ne peuvent rien pour vous et ils vous renvoient vers votre vendeur sauf que le problème vient de chez eux ... cela fait cher la place pour voir un bout de scène ... Au prix de la place, nous sommes écœurés ... L'argent avant tout ...

Saw Corteo on the weekend Brisbane Entertainment centre. Dissapointed in the show, not as good as previous. Did not enjoy the venue, big top much better in viewing and performance experience. Did not flow could not really understand the storyline. Minimal English spoken, and useless 'filler' type performances not relevant to anything such as a golfing skit, balloon skit and Romeo and Juliet skit. Some acrobat performances exceptional as usual with skill. Overall underwhelming for money paid and not in the same league as previous shows.

Underwhelming show ,in Brisbane, was tempted to walk out .
Cirque du Soleil, have really dropped the ball with this production, at $170 x2 i expected a lot more.
A lack of content ,and skill levels of some performers were below expectations.
Don't waste your money !!!

Apart from being seated with a railing in our view of sight, which made it difficult to see, we found the performance mediocre, why? because apart from some interesting elements, at least half of the performances were fillers. Eg a lady strapped to balloons being pushed up and down the aisles and a head at floor level acting like a golf ball being or not being hit. Really? There was no structure or theme that flowed to the performance and was not worth the money.

On September 17 I purchased two tickets for the show of Saturday 20th-2025 in Calgary Canada. if you search Cirque du Soleil on the website the first site that shows up is "TicketSales.com. I purchased the tickets for 280.35 dollars, and then I checked my bank account and noticed TicketSales withdrew 396.18 from my account. I called that company and the only explanation they gave me was that the amount was in United States Dollars... Very funny way to scam people. Very soon if a Chinese show arrives to Canada, Mexico, Brazil or any other country they are going to charge us in Yuans... By the way, I saw other cirques in my life and even for 200 Canadian Dollars the show I saw from the Cirque du Soleil is expansive.

Went to see Corteo yesterday at Sydney Qudos Arena.Had great seats but the show was disappointing. Have seen 2 other Cirque shows previously, both were amazing compared to Corteo. This show was bit slow, odd theme and acrobatics were average to what I've seen before. They wasted time with a romeo Juliet segment & a small person floating with balloons. I wouldn't recommend this show.

Now aged in my mid 60’s, over the past decades, I have seen several of the Cirque du Soleil’s productions & never once came away disappointed. I can say the same for Corteo which was held at Qudos Bank Arena at Sydney Olympic Park. At $173 per A Reserve ticket x 2 (as hubby came too), this is not a cheap night out & so I had big expectations, especially given the two sided arena staging which was very different to previous productions. It created a real connection between the audience and the performers on stage. We were seated in the first row of section 20 which was the first elevation on the ground floor. We did have a railing in front of us, which did limit the leg room we had. In that respect, it was a little cramped, but the close up view of the stage and the performers made up for the cramped leg room (sort of). Corteo tells the story of Mauro the clown, witnessing his own funeral procession and it goes through several themes of sadness, joy, humour, and acrobatics. The narration is beautifully done. It’s a visual spectacle and sometimes theres so much happening on stage, you don’t know where to look first. Theres trampolining and acrobatics on dual beds, yet also angels floating from the ceiling.

For us, there were several highlights which were giant the chandelier act, and the tiny clowness floating over the audience in oversized balloons. Some “attempted” comedy sketches such as the Romeo & Juliet segment fell flat and were completely unnecessary & not in keeping with the overall theme.
I thought the high aerial acrobatics could have gone for longer as this was significantly shorter than in previous productions. I did however enjoy one of the final acts of multiple artists performing acrobatic swinging feats on parallel bars all at the same time.

Overall, it delivered a memorable, really human experience, and I’m glad I had the opportunity to see it.

TLDR: Agitating security screening. Underwhelming show. Will not go again even if we have been members to many of their previous shows.

Went to the Corteo show at QUDOS bank on Sunday.

The security screening was the killer at a start. I had to go back to the car 2 times for being bounced twice, for things that I could have brought in previous shows - camera, metal bottles. I saw others being bounced for backpacks as well. We arrived earlier wanting to get a booster seat for kid, but we ended up missing the beginning of the show because of the bounces at the gate. Oh, they sold metal bottle after you passed the screening, so metal bottle is only a security risk when you bring it from outside. I guess they worry not you throw them if you bought it inside. Capitalism at its finest maybe.

Now with the mood set negative, I watched the show contemplating why I had to endure that. As others commented, the show was a lackluster. In their previous shows, they'd have some highlights (e.g. most flexible person, jumping really high, impressive core strength, etc.). This one... none.
There were people hanging as angels? but they just hanged there and did nothing. The small man lifted by huge balloons became boring after 10s. The stage setup made it even worse because you can't see the other side. When the balloon man floated to the other side, there was nothing to see. I literally pulled out my phone to do something else.

Salt to the wounds probably - they were speaking 80% in Italian (or Spanish). I don't understand and don't know the story at all.

So the whole thing was bland with a bad mood from the start.

I asked the security supervisor after the show. She said the screening arrangement was based on requirements from production, so it's the circus making it so harsh.
Who knows whether the security person was shifting the blame. Who cares.
I'll just have to avoid the circus and this Qudos bank arena for my mental peace.

Very boring show in Sydney
They bounce up and down a few times and throw some pillows around.

Very disappointing compared to previous shows. The upgrade to vip fan experience tickets was the biggest rip off ever - felt incredibley scammed out of our money as there was nothing vip about it just got given a crappy paper bag with booklet notepad and key ring - DO NOT PAY the $100 extra for this !!! We have always loved Cirque Solei but not any more sadly

We went last night to see this show in the Sydney QDOS Bank arena…. I have seen many performances by Cirque Du Soleil in there big top and found this one in the arena really disappointing. Our seats were so far away from the stage and felt disconnected, we were unable to see costumes, makeup or performers clearly and felt the company put profits first over customer experience…. I would not recommend to see this particular show.

Seriously disappointing. I have seen 3 other cirque du Soleil before & they were fantastic but this one was not worth the money at all. Hardly any acrobatics compared to other shows, silly & confusing story, felt like they were just killing time in some parts. Would not recommend.

Great day out but expected more from a professional outfit that charge good money for performances. Loved the acrobatic performances but the rest was mediocre. Won’t bother again, I believe previous shows were much more spectacular

Very disappointing, low quality, couldn’t figure out what was this about, until after I came home and googled about it. The performers clothes looked like they were kept in some bag , extremely wrinkled and unprofessional. Some acts were very repetitive. Absolutely did not have a WOW moment . I don’t know what happen , as this was the best Circus in the world just few years ago . I feel kinda tricked, for this amount of money I was expecting something amazing. Very disappointing

Very underwhelming show. There was no Wow to the show. It was all time filler with a few average stunts you can find in most street performances. Sad to see and a waste of money.
They maximised the people paying and decreased the performance.

Better routines at the local gymnasium. Very underwhelming, I was constantly waiting for the show to start. Too much filler. Many many bizzare scenes. Good luck understanding the storyline.

Not enough acrobatics, too much filler that you can see at a high school play. Most acrobatics good, just not enough of them. Expect more that something I can see on Americas got talent (diabolo). Has changed significantly over 20 years, if you expect what you saw years ago then don't go now. Also, letting people find seats 10min from start.

This was the most underwhelming performance of any kind that I have ever seen. There was bugger all acrobatics, the story line I couldn’t figure out for the life of me & the ticket prices were way over priced! I was highly anticipating this show as I had heard such rave reviews from people who had been to past performances, but even those people agree that this latest show is NOTHING like what the were expecting either!
Either there is a lack of talented acrobats atm or OHS has gone mad and prevented them from doing all the usual stuff, but either way they need to adjust their ticket prices to reflect such. I’ve seen far more impressive performances at the local high school gymnastic class.

Worst show I’ve seen seen 3 of these shows and this was a complete wast of money I fell asleep,and left early so so disappointed

What a joke worse I have ever seen, a total amateur mess, seen better at 5 year olds birthday party. Left at half time like many others.