Opera San Jose presents Bizet's Carmen April 18, 2009

Carmen is by far America's favorite opera. It overflows with unforgettable melodies, Spanish folk songs, and sunny orchestrations, yet is also rich enough to offer insightful portraits of its characters and intense drama. These French-singing Spaniards are, above all, believable human beings. A sense of reality and immediacy infuses their situations, through which we see a soldier fall desperately in love with one of the great sirens of all time who has no feelings for him. Their responses are human in the extreme and utterly outside the confines of polite society. It is no wonder that Carmen herself continues to fascinate us and that Bizet's music continues to charm and thrill audiences throughout the world.

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