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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...
Judging from the crowd and the applause, one may safely conclude that the Boston Lyric Opera??€™s outreach to the people of the greater Boston area was a definite success...
...universal themes to emerge in a context readily identifiable and relevant for audiences. In transporting the action of George Bizet’s opera Carmen from 19th-century Seville to the tumultuous backdrop of the free trade protests in Quebec and post-September 11 Wall Street, Lowell House Opera??€™s (LHO) new adaptation fails to shed light on the complex, weighty issues of free trade and globalization, while confusing and compromising the dramatic appeal of the opera itself
...this end, McCarty has also been involved in the Cape Cod Opera??€™s community outreach program, where members of the company travel to high schools to perform excerpts from famous operas...
...male leads, Scott P. Asher ’02 and Thomas P. Lowe ’05, who play Governor Almaviva and Figaro, respectively, both carry their scenes ably, communicating the opera??€™s inherent comic appeal. Lowe’s wickedly clever yet playful Figaro is particularly memorable. He brings roars of laughter from the crowd, and his mischievous glances charm the audience...