Hints and tips:
...This changed drastically in act two, when the new thinking in the production showed in Michael Levine’s sets. Carmen and her friends are partying inside a moving semi-trailer running contraband....
...The programme, not incidentally, credits the ring-around-the-rosy choreography to none less than Carmen de Lavallade. That must be a misprint....
...Waltraud Meier looked strong in Rosa Ponselle’s Carmen costume but sounded weak, while Alagna found José’s threats a strain....
...James Levine, his long-time musical collaborator, is spared aspersion, though we are told he is “allergic to confrontations”....
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