Bizet’s Carmen, the world’s most popular opera for well over a century now, bursts with sizzling sexuality, tense excitement, passion, romance, jealousy and murder, and it has sensational ...
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Giuseppe Verdi knew his opera of love, war, revenge and death was old-fashioned but he also knew that old-fashioned 19th century audiences loved arias, romantic melodramas and songs lavished with melo ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Carmen at Royal Opera House, London EC2 At its Paris premiere in 1875 the French critics thought the opera, an adaptation of Prosper Mérimée’s novella, scandalous and obscene. T ...
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Joyce Glasser reviews Carmen on the Lake: Event Cinema on Thursday, 14 September 2017 Kasper Holten’s thrilling production of Carmen, with Paolo Carignani beautifully conducting the Vienna Philharmoni ...
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