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Profiling Goya at Spoleto Festival USA
In Michael Nyman's Facing Goya, the artist's head ends up in the worst possible hands.
LA Opera's season opening Carmen lacks sizzle
Of the “ABCs” of opera (Aida, Bohème, and Carmen), Bizet’s masterpiece is the one that has made the transition to pop culture ubiquity. Surely even the most oblivious of listeners are able to whistle along to the “Habanera” and “Toreador Song”. Furthermore, the melodramatic story of exoticism, lust and rejection is one of the most popular of operatic tales.