Experience a modern new staging of Bizet’s classic Carmen in cinemas as a part of the Met Opera's award-winning series of live performance transmissions.
RONALD BLUM
This New Year’s Eve at the Metropolitan Opera meant opening night for one of its most anticipated new productions of the season, Bizet’sCarmen. With a contemporary American setting, there was also the promise of rising star mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina as Carmen. Already a young veteran ...
Among the pieces performed were “Nessun Dorma” from Puccini’s “Turandot,”“Soave sia il vento” from Mozart’s “Così fan tutte,” Strauss’ “Radetzky March,” Bizet’s Carmen Suite, and Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” “New York City in the summer is a creative playground, w...