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-This was the best Carmen I have ever seen, bar none!!!! Elena Garanca was unbelievable dancing, singing, acting. Alagna cracked a little during the Flower song but he was great. The staging was outstanding and the added ballet in the overture and the act 3 interlude really added to the interpretation of the opera. I loved it. we noticed Robert Weiss in line behind us at the theater.+This was the best Carmen I have ever seen, bar none!!!! Elena Garanca was unbelievable dancing, singing, acting. Alagna cracked a little during the Flower song but he was great. The staging was outstanding and the added ballet in the overture and the act 3 interlude really added to the interpretation of the opera. I loved it. We noticed Robert Weiss in line behind us at the theater. 
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 ===== She’s Got Castanets, So Let Carmen Dance ===== ===== She’s Got Castanets, So Let Carmen Dance =====
  
 By ALASTAIR MACAULAY By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
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 In his overture to “Carmen,” Bizet introduces a recurring motif that listeners have invariably associated with fate and with the fatal liaison of Carmen and Don José. The composer meant it to be played with the curtain lowered. Then, as the stage action proceeds, he develops it powerfully, bringing it back often, in hauntingly different versions: like a flash of lightning, like a slow but tremendous warning, like an irresistible undertow. In his overture to “Carmen,” Bizet introduces a recurring motif that listeners have invariably associated with fate and with the fatal liaison of Carmen and Don José. The composer meant it to be played with the curtain lowered. Then, as the stage action proceeds, he develops it powerfully, bringing it back often, in hauntingly different versions: like a flash of lightning, like a slow but tremendous warning, like an irresistible undertow.
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