Carmen is a bitch—but, oh, what a voice. The opera named for the dancing, flirtatious gypsy songstress who seduces a soldier until he loves her back, leaves, and returns, moves from the streets of 1830s Spain in Georges Bizet’s tragedy Carmen to a 1920s Parisian nightclub in American Opera Theater’s version, Le Cabaret de...
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Le Cabaret de Carmen at Theatre Project
On Stage: Le Cabaret de Carmen
| Image by from www.theatreproject.org Today through Sunday are the final four dates to catch the American Opera Theater‘s imaginative interpretation of Georges Bizet’s workhorse Romantic opera Carmen. Featuring a new book by AOT artistic director Timothy Nelson, Le Cabaret de Carmen takes as its inspiration an unorthodox 1981 version of the opera as...
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