The Russian producer Danchenko announced that he will " modernize " Carmen. That is, he will retain the present musical form as much as possible, but will change the libretto to make it more realistic and conform it as far as possible to the original novel, Carmen, by Prosper M´erim´ee.
The libretto of the opera, Carmen, has been regarded for a long time as one of the best. It is, indeed, coherent and dramatic, and far better than most operatic libretti, But it must be said that it cheapens in many places the...
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