Covent Garden’s Carmen still sings in the Underground

Covent Garden’s Carmen still sings in the Underground

Opera

norman lebrecht

June 05, 2024

From an Aigul Akhmetshina interview with Farah Nayeri in the NY Times:

‘I love to sometimes spontaneously sing in the London Underground, shock people. On a recent holiday in Dubai, I was on the beach and people asked me what I did. When I said I was an opera singer, they said they’d never been at an opera, and I said “Now you will be.” I sang the “Habanera” aria from “Carmen” for them right there on the beach. They had never heard it, and they said, “Oh, I really should go.”

‘I do that often, if I see that people don’t have the opportunity and were never introduced to classical music. They feel the vibration of your voice so closely that they really think: maybe I should experience this.’

Which tube station?

Comments

  • Ok then says:

    Uh-oh, narcissism kicking in
    Poor Aigul

  • David A. Boxwell says:

    “The Madcap Mezzo!”

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