Pre-performance talk by Charlotte Valori: Bizet and Carmen
Come along to the Fisher Theatre bar before their screening of the Royal Opera House’s sizzling new production of Carmen, directed by Barrie Kosky, to find me talking briefly about…
ROH Encore Screening: Bizet’s Carmen
The young soldier Don José intends to marry Micaëla, a girl from his home village. But when he meets the sensual and fiercely independent Carmen, he sacrifices everything to be…
Bizet’s Carmen, OperaUpClose, Soho Theatre
There is no definitive edition of Bizet’s Carmen. In January and March 1875, two different editions of the score were published, neither of which match the conducting score for its premiere…
The Boys from Bohème: An Unexpected Opera Chat Show
I have to start this review with a confession: the more you go to Unexpected Opera shows, the harder it gets to remain objective about them. As I’ve now seen…
Bonkers, busy Bizet: Pop Up Opera’s Le docteur Miracle
Bizet’s Le docteur Miracle is no serious opera: it is, by contrast, frivolous in the extreme. Uniquely among operettas, it contains a (beautifully-written) quartet in praise of an omelette – which turns out…