Le Royal Opera House Covent Garden accueille une reprise de la mise en scène francfortoise ​(2016) de Barrie Kosky de Carmen, avec Tanja Ariane Baumgartner dans le rôle titre, Brian Jagde en Don J...

Pero toda esta maraña conceptual podría haber naufragado, entrando fácilmente en el terreno del ridículo, de no haber estado acompañada de un superlativo cuidado a la estética, de una ejecución

With no sets to speak of, the production relied heavily on dancers of rather strong competence, and, less fortunately, on mimes who would have been brought up on charges of minstrelsy or any related p

This time, under the brisk baton of Keri-Lynn Wilson making her ROH debut, sharpened, tightened, the evening flew. Gaëlle Arquez is an ideal, sexy Carmen, Brian Jagde a Don José whose charms, for on

This time, some of the singing is a bit better, though Kosky’s concept, ripping Carmen from its context and making much of it look like an episode of Strictly Come Dancing, remains as perverse as ev