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4.7
By Byrda
Evening out with the girls
Loved this show! The aerialists were amazing and the stage decorations were an important implement to their show. Some of my favs, the ladder guy, the parallel bars group, the couple on the ribbon, and the snow globe act.
By dadfraser
Corteo was amazing
Having seen cirque in vegas I was amazed at how well the production was done in the smaller venue of Rupp. I was well worth the price and I'd go again.
By kayceelyn16
Amazing
This performance was over the top, amazing, I loved every minute of the show!
By Lily585
Small scale
If you have never seen any other cirque shows you will love it. For the people who have seen their shows in Las Vegas maybe not so much. Since it’s a traveling show it is incredibly small scale so they can’t do quite as much. If you don’t have anything to compare it to it’s great. Personally I have seen 7 other shows and it just wasn’t up to par to the other ones. Also the little people act with their own stage should absolutely be taken out. One of the worst clown acts I have ever seen.
By Ramstein
The show
What a wonderful experience. Really enjoyed everything. Highly recommend all go to see this show
By Stonelady
Unforgettable
The best performance I have ever seen! Highly recommend going if you ever have the opportunity! Awesome!!
By Acquinas
This is no Las Vegas Cirque Du Soleil
My wife and I have seen all of the Cirque Du Soleil shows in Las Vegas at least twice, and a few (Mystere and Le Reve) more than 3 times. Perhaps we have been spoiled because the Corteo show we saw at Rupp Arena was like watching a high school basketball team play on that hallowed court in lieu of watching the Kentucky Wildcats, the nation's winningest college basketball team.. Corteo would be a flop in Vegas. In fact, I can't imagine any casino General Managers even allowing it to be performed. Corteo was mediocre at best. The acrobatics were banal and had they been performed on "America's Got Talent", they would have been "x'ed" out before they finished their performance. I paid nearly $300 to for 2 good seats to see Las Vegas" Cirque Du Soleil come to Lexington. Instead, I got the Gatlinburg, Tennessee "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" version. We were greatly disappointed.
By PatVara
Fabulous!
Don't miss this extraordinary performance. A treat for all ages!
By Choxbar
Simply breathtaking
One of the best shows ever on stage! Never a dull moment!
By BamBam53
Cirque du Soleil was everything I expected!
I had seen O in Las Vegas but no other shows before. This was just as exciting and thrilling in a totally different way. I am hoping to see more shows!
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Cirque du Soleil: Corteo on Tour
Like the deceased clown whose festive fantasy funeral it portrays, Corteo has risen again to assume its joyful place in the Cirque du Soleil solar system.
One of some 20 active Cirque du Soleil shows, Corteo closed its "Grand Chapiteau" – or "big tent" – run in Quito, Ecuador, in December 2015 after more than 3,500 performances seen by more than 5 million people since its Montreal premiere a decade earlier. In 2018, Corteo reopened in New Orleans as an even bigger and better arena experience slated for a two-year tour.
If you love clowns, Corteo is the show for you. Taking its title from the Italian word for "cortège," or procession, Corteo offers a parade of brilliant entertainments in a carnivalesque atmosphere. It was inspired originally by "The Grand Parade: Portrait of the Artist as Clown," a 2004 exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada.
That exhibition's vast array of circus life, from 18th-century fairgrounds to Picasso's harlequins, was transformed into an in-the-round big-top experience by director Daniele Finzi Pasca. Pasca founded the Swiss clown troupe Teatro Sunil and directed several other Cirque du Soleil spectacles.
While all of the show's principal characters are clowns – including the Dead Clown, Clowness, Giant Clown, and Little Clown – the 62-member cast, from more than a dozen countries, also features aerialists, acrobats, musicians, jugglers, contortionists, hoopers, and gymnasts in addition to its many jubilant jesters.
Costume designer Dominique Lemieux was inspired by "raw and luxurious" European fabrics from the early 20th century and commedia dell'arte characters from the 16th to the 18th centuries. A labyrinth matching one on the floor of France's famed Chartres Cathedral graces the stage. And French painter Adolphe Willette's fantasy Parisian bohemian scene Parc Domine (1885) inspired the show's elaborate water-colored curtains. Those curtains hide "Patience," an imposing overhead structure holding up the rails traversed by four platform carts.
Its stunning mixture of acrobatics and character-driven acting has been Cirque du Soleil's calling card since 1984, when what is now the world's largest theatrical production was founded in Montreal by street performers Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix. With Corteo, Cirque du Soleil has outdone itself with an epic tribute to the circus world's comical essence: the clown.