26 Sep 2005
'Carmen' glistens, fascinates
http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/cst-ftr-lyric26.html
https://boydellandbrewer.com/bizet-s-i-carmen-i-uncovered.html
https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-operas-of-sergei-prokofiev.html
https://www.wexfordopera.com/media/news/incoming-artistic-director-rosetta-cucchi-announces-her-2020-programme
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo43988096.html
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=809636
https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/music/twentieth-century-and-contemporary-music/prokofievs-soviet-operas?format=HB
https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-operas-of-benjamin-britten.html
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-opera-singers-acting-toolkit-9781350006454/
https://h-france.net/vol18reviews/vol18no52palidda.pdf
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2018/08/glyndebourne_an.php
A musical challenge to our view of the past
https://vimeo.com/operarara/how-to-rescue-an-opera
http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/cst-ftr-lyric26.html
By Wynne Delacoma [Chicago Sun-Times, 26 September 2005]
When it comes to operatic icons, Bizet's Carmen is in a class by herself. She has strong competition from leading ladies of the other operas that perennially top audience's Most Favorite lists -- Mimi in Puccini's "La boheme'' and two of Verdi's most memorable creations: Violetta of "La traviata'' and Aida. This being opera, they all wind up as corpses.