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...Georges Bizet??s Carmen blares from the computer of Menyoung Lee ’10. The boys sit scattered around their gray worktable, their eyes telltale red and fingers sore from countless hours at their laptops, dutifully LaTeXing problem sets. They have been here since 2 p.m. and will work for almost 12 straight hours to complete the problem set due the following...
...live performance of even the fieriest tale of romance and betrayal can fizzle if the two lead actors share no chemistry.It is an axiom made flesh by Dominique Serrand’s production of Georges Bizet??s operatic masterpiece “Carmen,” which finished its five-week run at the Loeb Drama Center on Saturday.“Carmen” follows the ill-fated attraction between its titular heroine, a tempestuous femme fatale, and Don José, the Spanish corporal who uproots his life in order to pursue her. Don José forsakes...
Byrne has a reputation for an obsession with worldbeat, but on this album he not only makes musical leaps around the globe, but also through time. Bizet??s “Au Fond du Temple Saint” and Verdi’s “Un Di Felice, Eterea” pop up in orchestral forms not too distant from their 19th-century originals, except, of course for the presence of Byrne’s Francophone chops. He is joined on the Bizet cover by Rufus Wainwright, another artist from the northeast known for operatic...
Despite this complication, the 60,000 people who turned out for the opera’s first performance on Friday were able to enjoy an entertaining reenactment of Bizet??s story of a beautiful gypsy girl whose carefree attitude towards love brings her death. Among the 75,000 Boston residents who attended Saturday night’s production, a larger proportion than is usual for operas were families with children or twentysomethings. The BLO had hoped to reach out to a younger audience by producing Carmen in English rather than its original French...
...addition, the superb orchestration merits mention, as Bizet??s score realizes its playful, graceful, and emotional fullest in the production...