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Carmen suffers more from gyp than gypsy

20.03.09
Life imitating art and actors imitating their characters is not new but Gades has created a startlingly innovative double plot for Carmen.... more

Carmen with a difference

07.07.08
Bizet's Carmen is usually presented as a big-stage spectacular but not in David McVicar's Glyndebourne production.... more

A gipsy spectacular

26.03.08
The best is saved till last in Francesca Zambello's staging of Bizet's Carmen, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

No smoke, no smut

01.10.07
This almost unbelievably wide of the mark production of Carmen has no smoke, no energy and no intensity.... more

Time to meet Ms Jones

17.07.07
A new all-black production of Carmen Jones is about to hit the London stage but it's still all about the music, as Warwick Thompson discovers.... more

Critic's choice: Opera

22.01.07
With its pouting, hip-swinging femme fatale and thumping good tunes, Bizet's Carmen is for many the epitome of opera. ... more

No smoke but plenty of fire

11.12.06
Covent Garden's new Carmen is physical and sexy and has it all: bondage, cleavage, animals, acrobats and a tenor to die for, says Fiona Maddocks.... more


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