Pathology of a bad production
mainLarry Johnson takes a scalpel to Chicago’s new Carmen, directed by a Broadway song-and-dance man:
You knew it was going to be a long night at the Civic Opera House when the undulating shirtless male dancer with a bull’s head mask appeared during the opening Prelude to menace a group of fellow dancers dressed as toreadors.
That pretty much set the sophomoric tone for Lyric Opera’s hapless new production of Bizet’s Carmen, which opened Saturday night.
Read on here.
photo: Todd Rosenberg
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