Watch the buxom Carmen take her final tumble down the red-carpeted stage--blood spurting from her throat, her white-flounced dress sailing over her body--while out in the dark house, the audience sits perfectly still. As the curtain falls, there stands her murderer, Don Jose, staring into the distance, all anguish and theatrical intensity. When the curtain next rises, the audience explodes with enthusiasm, frantically clapping through multiple curtain calls. Ovation follows ovation. Yet, despite the reaction of most everyone else, the Minnesota Opera's revival of their... More >>>