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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on September 12, 2017, 09:57:21 PM

Title: Talent
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 12, 2017, 09:57:21 PM
So watched a performance of Carmen tonight at the Anglican Church in Florence and feck x factor etc, these people were incredible. Hat doffed.
Title: Re: Talent
Post by: Walter on September 12, 2017, 10:23:22 PM
So watched a performance of Carmen tonight at the Anglican Church in Florence and feck x factor etc, these people were incredible. Hat doffed.
what ever lifts your hat, I suppose.  ;D
Title: Re: Talent
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 12, 2017, 10:29:37 PM
what ever lifts your hat, I suppose.  ;D
You don't like a well sung Carmen?
Title: Re: Talent
Post by: Gordon on September 12, 2017, 11:10:08 PM
Love it - hard not to!
Title: Re: Talent
Post by: Walter on September 12, 2017, 11:17:06 PM
You don't like a well sung Carmen?
just kidding, glad you enjoyed it .
Title: Re: Talent
Post by: Dicky Underpants on September 13, 2017, 04:31:05 PM
You don't like a well sung Carmen?

Not 'arf! Don J very difficult to cast though. Has to be capable of extreme lyricism and intense dramatics. It's also nice if the Carmen can dance as well as sing.
Title: Re: Talent
Post by: Robbie on September 13, 2017, 06:20:51 PM
That's more musical theatre style & Carmen has translated to that quite well, Carmen Jones for example. I recall Brenda Edwards begin supurb in a production at, iirc, the RFS some years ago.
Carmen the opera is wonderful as it is.
Glad you enjoyed it NS.
Title: Re: Talent
Post by: Dicky Underpants on September 14, 2017, 04:04:11 PM
That's more musical theatre style & Carmen has translated to that quite well, Carmen Jones for example. I recall Brenda Edwards begin supurb in a production at, iirc, the RFS some years ago.
Carmen the opera is wonderful as it is.
Glad you enjoyed it NS.

Music theatre style or not, in the original opera when Don Jose is supposed to be looking after Carmen (who has her hands tied), she sings and dances the seguidilla, in an attempt to seduce Corporal J and to persuade him to release her.