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Is Carmen the most powerful (and empowered) heroine in opera?
Carmen is not only a poor woman in a rich man’s world, but a gypsy – one of the most marginalised groups of any society, in any era. Clémentine Margaine as ...
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Metropolitan Opera: Carmen Story
Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, a triumph in her 2017 debut performances, with impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and Roberto ...
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Critic's notebook: At the Metropolitan Opera, an 'Aida' production rooted in the past says a lot about the genre's future
The Metropolitan Opera's assistant directors balance tradition and innovation to revive productions like "Aida" while shaping ...
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Opera on 3 Live from the Met, Bizet's Carmen Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, a performance of Bizet's opera Carmen.
Photo by Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. Danielle Talamantes as Frasquita, Clémentine Margaine in the title role, and Shirin Eskandani as Mercédès Photo by Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera ...
Lucine Amara, stalwart soprano for the Metropolitan Opera, dies at 99
Lucine Amara, a soprano who sang for four decades with the Metropolitan ... Bizet (“Carmen”) and Richard Strauss (“Ariadne ...
Q&A: Terence Blanchard does it all — jazz, operas, Oscar-nominated film scores, and that Pepsi commercial with Beyonce
What led to the teaming of Beyoncé and jazz trumpet great Terence Blanchard for an operatically inspired Pepsi TV commercial in 2002? That was just two months before the release of her first solo ...