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Carmen at the Royal Opera review: where was the animal magnetism and dark underbelly of sexual passion?

Source: Camilla Greenwell

How to say anything new about is the perennial challenge faced by directors. The power relations between the sexes that make the work as potent today as ever – arguably more so – have been deconstructed in many productions in recent years, not least by at in 2018, and rather more successfully at ENO in 2012.

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