Bizet's Carmen at the Teatro Real (I)

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A classic modern production of Bizet's opera Carmen can be seen these days at Madrid's Teatro Real. The Catalan director Calixto Bieito has brought his Carmen, in a National Opera of Paris production, to Madrid, where audiences have been reawakened to the stinging vitality of Bizet's masterpiece. Justin Coe and Alison Hughes discuss aspects of the opera in two programs, this the first.