Sex, Violence and Passion Pack the Lyric Opera's “Carmen”

Call out the fire trucks! The Lyric Opera’s second cast for Bizet’s “Carmen” is hot. The popular opera, which runs at the Civic Opera House through March 27, has been infused with new blood and its gripping drama flows fiercely toward its brutal finale, when Carmen pays for her sins with her life. Making her […]

by Dorothy Andries

Carmen Seduces Us All

Carmen is one of opera’s very bad girls. She seduces and then abandons her lovers about every six months, leaving them in various states of despair.   But the weak-willed Don Jose, a Spanish soldier who deserts his regiment for her, will be her undoing. Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its production of Bizet’s “Carmen” […]

by Dorothy Andries