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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #15 on: 17:10:53, 03-10-2007 »
Quote from: harpy128 on 16:57:44, 03-10-2007
I might be wrong because it's a few years since I saw it but I didn't think the ENO's last Carmen production was all that "traditional"?
It was updated - to the 1940s - but it was, at least, a fairly straightforward story involving gypsies, toreadors and smugglers in Seville.
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« Reply #16 on: 17:19:58, 03-10-2007 »
But the Miller one wasn't particularly "chocolate-boxy", as traditional Carmen productions are alleged to be, was it? Although the Zambello effort could be accused of that, with all the animals and stuff.
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« Reply #17 on: 20:39:49, 03-10-2007 »
Quote from: Ruth Elleson on 17:10:53, 03-10-2007
a fairly straightforward story involving gypsies, toreadors and smugglers in Seville.

Y'mean there wasn't a lesbian Mercedes, Lillas Pastia running a BDSM parlour, a film crew filming Fellini's LA STRADA in the piazza, Zuniga as a Traffic Warden, Escamillo as a Grand Prix driver, an army of juvenile Napoleons following Jose around the stage in white costumes, and the entire thing set in The Third Reich/down a mine/in Andy Warhol's apartment/in a lunatic asylum where everyone thinks they're in the opera "Carmen"/on the Moon?  O tempora! O mores!
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