Summary
ENGLISH National Opera's new Carmen, conducted by Edward Gardner and starring Alice Coote, was certainly original. No sexual energy, no cigarette factory, no smoke, no castanets, no Seville, no smut, no intensity.
Add to this a gipsy heroine who refuses to dance and a vapid staging which misunderstands Bizet's music and you have a holy mess. The implications for ENO, so wide of the mark in this core repertoire piece, are worrying.See the full content of this document
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No Smoke, No Smut ; Opera Carmen Coliseum
This was film director Sally Potter's first opera. The avalanche of behindscene blogging t...
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