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Carmen? Are you sure?

Carmen? Are you sure?

Carrie Cracknell directs Carmen in New York (****) [cinema]

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Jan 30, 2024
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Pjotr Beczala (Don José) & Aigul Akhmetshina (Carmen) © Ken Howard | Met Opera

Four stars for this production: an average between a full 5 stars for the vocal quality (certainly in the ladies’ parts) and a flattered 3 stars for the production.

I must admit I was expecting a lot of the radically new version of Bizet’s iconic “success de scandale” from 1875…

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