She’s the one your mother warned you about. She’s beautiful, seductive, wily, fickle and elusive. Her name is Carmen, and she’s the centerpiece of the 1875 opera by Georges Bizet that opens the New ...
The Gypsy Bible fuses folk music and opera in gory tales about the power of the violin. The mixture is uneasy. Opera singers accustomed to vocal perfection are uncomfortable with the rough-edged ...