Moonflower in blossom: Aigul Akhmetshina on Carmen

Aigul Akhmetshina

Aigul Akhmetshina (Carmen)

Jacquelyn Stucker (Frasquita), Anna Goryachova (Carmen) and Aigul Akhmetshina (Mercédès)

Aigul Akhmetshina (Isabella) in the JPYA summer performance

By Mark Pullinger, 21 June 2019

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“This Carmen is a game – a provocation between Carmen and the audience”

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

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