11 Apr 2006
DESPITE SOME FINE SINGING, CITY OPERA 'CARMEN' NOT ELECTRIFYING
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/62273.htm
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A musical challenge to our view of the past
https://vimeo.com/operarara/how-to-rescue-an-opera
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/62273.htm
(Photo: Lisa Kohler)
By CLIVE BARNES [NY Post, 11 April 2006]
SOME operas sing themselves, if you have the right singers. One of these foolproof - if not quite singer-proof - operas is Bizet's "Carmen," which returned to New York City Opera on Friday night, with a cast led by the sterling Kate Aldrich making her local debut as the wild and fiery Carmen.