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2024-04-06 11:15:00
Bizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed by musical performances
Bizet: Carmen, Act One - Blaise Malaba, Aighul Akhmetshina - Royal Opera House (Photo: ROH/Camilla Greenwell)Bizet: Carmen; Aigul Akhmetshina, Piortr Beczala, Olga Kulchynska, Kostas Smoriginas, director: Damiano Michieletto, conductor: Antonello Manacorda; Royal OperaReviewed 5 April 2024The new production pairs finely musical performances with a sense of gritty realism and a reluctance to add any local colour and movement.For all its iconic status and abundance of good tunes, Bizet's Carmen remains something of a challenge for large opera companies. Until relatively recently matters of edition and style were unquestioning, the grand opera version with Ernest Guiraud's recitatives and a setting that was 'traditional 19th-century Spain'. Since then, things have got more complex with a return to using the opera comique version and a wish to avoid the lazy stage-Spanish stereo-types. It is worth emphasising that the Bizet's opera has little Spanish input, composer, librettists and original author were all French men. And whilst […]
2024-04-03 19:17:54
Jose Luis Merlin - "Al Peregrino" de la "Al Cristo de la Quebrada"Dmitry Teslov (Guitar)Alexey Chibisov (Violin)
2024-04-03 19:16:13
Jose Luis Merlin - "Zamba del Regreso" de la "Al Cristo de la Quebrada"Dmitry Teslov (Guitar)Alexey Chibisov (Violin)
2024-04-03 19:10:08
Jose Luis Merlin - "Milonga del Ausente" de la "Al Cristo de la Quebrada"Dmitry Teslov (Guitar)Alexey Chibisov (Violin)
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