Understand every word: Performed in French with English subtitles.Ī regular at The Metropolitan Opera, Ginger Costa Jackson has performed Rosina ( The Barber of Seville), Lola ( Cavalleria Rusticana) and Smeton ( Anna Bolena).

LIBRETTO Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac Fueled by jealousy and obsession, Don José tracks her down and confronts her at a bullfight, where we’ll find out if she has one last trick up her sleeve. But their budding romance ends as abruptly as it started when Carmen takes up with a bullfighter named Escamillo. So powerful and potent is Carmen’s beauty and passion that he impulsively leaves behind a career in uniform and follows her into a new life among her people: smugglers and fortune-tellers. We meet Carmen as the soon-to-be-smitten soldier, Don José, is arresting her. In one of the most popular operas of all time , Bizet’s free-spirited femme fatale, Carmen, is the kind of woman your mother warned you about. Mack the Knife is the Man I Love: A Weill-Gershwin Cabaret.

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