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CarmenThe Royal OperaNo. of reviews: 20 | |
Musicological melange: Barrie Kosky's production of Carmen at the Royal Opera |
 12 Mar 18 / Planet Hugill |
Anna Goryachova beguilingly stares down the camera for Royal Opera’s Carmen in cinemas |
| 12 Mar 18 / Seen and Heard |
Carmen entre Zefirelli y Kosky |
| 20 Feb 18 / Mundo Clásico (Spanish) |
A production that achieves what it sets out to do |
| 20 Feb 18 / Express |
Kosky's Carmen fails to light fires at Covent Garden |
| 16 Feb 18 / Bachtrack |
A colossal bore |
| 15 Feb 18 / The Spectator |
Barrie Kosky’s innovations are always worth seeing, but this does not have the punch of other productions |
| 14 Feb 18 / Mark Ronan's Theatre Reviews |
Barrie Kosky's Spanish steps |
| 13 Feb 18 / The Critics' Circle |
Performers enjoy a nightly workout in Barrie Kosky’s refreshing if flawed new Royal Opera production |
| 12 Feb 18 / The Observer |
Barrie Kosky's Carmen at Covent Garden |
| 9 Feb 18 / Opera Today |
Barrie Kosky’s Carmen for the Royal Opera is a tedious affair |
| 9 Feb 18 / Seen and Heard |
Carmen is monochrome and magnificent at Royal Opera House |
| 9 Feb 18 / Londonist |
A wake-up call met with boos and cheers |
| 9 Feb 18 / Financial Times |
Tausche Troubadour gegen Carmen |
| 8 Feb 18 / Deutschland Radio |
It’s vaudeville filtered through a very Germanic theatre of the absurd |
| 8 Feb 18 / Classical Source |
Anna Goryachova as Carmen deploys her mezzo voice like a weapon of war |
| 8 Feb 18 / Independent |
Bizet meets Busby Berkeley |
| 8 Feb 18 / The Guardian |
Barrie Kosky puts fun and games centre-stage in Bizet's fierce romance |
| 8 Feb 18 / What's on Stage |
Barrie Kosky’s radical, heartless, if sometimes brilliantly theatrical, staging of Bizet’s opera |
| 8 Feb 18 / The Stage |
Love it or hate it, this isn't just another Carmen |
| 8 Feb 18 / Telegraph |
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