Opera on Ice

I couldnt find a thread about this show so I thought I'd post one!

Opera on Ice will take place at the Arena of Verona on October 1st - it will be an extraordinary show with Carolina, Stephane, Pang/Tong and others who will skate the the opera arena to live opera music. The event gets a lot of attention in Italy, it will also be shown live at over 600 cinemas worldwide. Quite exciting to see figure skating at movie theatres. Here is the website: www.operaonice.eu

Carolina is testimonial of this event and she has been doing a lot of promotion for it. She attended the Venice film festival this week to promote it, her official website has published photos from the event, she looks absolutely stunning: http://www.carolina-kostner.it/E-Home.htm

Also, rumour has it that she is choreographing her programs for Opera on Ice together with Stephane. Can't wait to see that show, it's going to be amazing!!

Here is Carolina's new exhibition to Evita that she skated to at Musicals on Ice two weeks ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WWDZDp0JQo

What a neat idea! I wish I could see it. I hope that some of it makes its way onto YouTube. Carolina and Stephane...bliss!

Carolina's website has published some photos from the show and a press release. The arena was sold out with 10.000 spectators: http://www.carolina-kostner.it/E-Home.htm

I was there live and it truely was an incredible evening. I have been to A LOT of skating shows but this was by far the best one I have seen. Maybe not skatingwise because the rink was smaller but the overall show was just incredible with the live orchestra, singers, choir, etc.
The skaters did a good job interpreting the music and the opera selections. Stephane was amazing, as always. His skating is incredible and he has the ability to interpret any kind of music to its best. The audience loved him too.

Carolina was very good too, she was testimonial of the event and there was a lot of attention on her because of that. She skated to Carmen and Tosca and Stephane choreographed both programs with her, they were lovely and you could definitely see his influence there.

Also loved all the other skaters, as I said, everyone really did a great job considering they all had to create new programs just for this one show and skating on a smaller rink. I really hope they will do another one next year, it was truely special!

For those who don't bother to go to the website the following skaters are listed:


Stefan Lambiel
Carolina Kostner
Capellini & Lanotte
Pang & Tong
Delobel & Schoenfelder
Totmianina & Marinin
Emanuel Sandhu

The "Hot Shivers" Italian synchro team