With "Carmen" the latest smash hit of opera literature is on the program, using Bizet's original version as "Opéra comique" with spoken dialogues as a model. Of course, it's all about the eternally feminine, the eternally masculine and the eternally smarmy. The rebellious little bird that Carmen sings love as is not plucked, but freed from the cage of operatic convention.
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