The truth must be faced: my production of Carmen has infuriated many of the established opera critics. There have been som ...

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The moment is upon us. All that we have worked for behind closed doors (glimpsed, from time to time, by cameras for the we ...

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Bizet wrote a complex musical score for Carmen and the librettists produced a lyric and dramatic structure. But for a sin ...

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During our first week of work together in Spain last year Es and I decided we had to go to a bullfight. In order to unders ...

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Bizet never went to Spain, but nevertheless felt ...

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In the early weeks of rehearsal there are lines of tape on the floor of the studio which represent the layout of the desig ...

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Yesterday Pablo, Lucila and I met for the first day of rehearsals ...

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During the weeks leading up to the start of rehearsals various dramas have erupted about the translation of the libretto ...

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