Ai No Corrida
Carmen is Carmen, as far as I'm concerned, and personally, it's not an opera I would go out of my way to see again. Fantastic opera, brilliantly scored in a way that is full of life and passion, consummately operatic, but done to death, to the extent that it's almost become a cliché, removed and detached from whatever real human emotions used to underlie it. Consequently, until the recent Bizet: Carmen in 3D production from the Royal Opera House, I hadn't seen or really listened to the opera in about ten years, and Francesca Zambello's conventional and unimaginative staging for that production reminded me why. The production itself wasn't bad, but there was just nothing new in it.
From the standpoint of the casting alone however, there's plenty of good reasons to like this production, which has the right kind of blend that is needed in terms of experience for the two principal roles and...
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