MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Music & the Arts

Sasha Cooke Brings Sharp Intelligence to Seattle Opera’s Caribbean-Tinged ‘Carmen’

Sasha Cooke (Carmen) with Matthew Cairns (Don José) in Carmen at Seattle Opera. Photo: Sunny Martini.

Sasha Cooke is making her role debut in Seattle Opera’s revival of its Carmen production. Some thoughts for Bachtrack:

For its season-closing revival of Paul Curran’s production of Carmen, Seattle Opera is presenting alternating casts headed by Sasha Cooke and J’Nai Bridges in the title role. Cooke’s much-anticipated role debut reveals an intelligent, tightly controlled interpretation that resists many familiar clichés surrounding the character while never fully igniting the opera’s destructive energies.

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Filed under: Georges Bizet, review, Seattle Opera

Protected: Review of San Francisco Opera Season Closers

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Filed under: directors, Georges Bizet, Handel, Musical America, review, San Francisco Opera

Bizet’s Pêcheurs de Perles at the Met

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Here’s the program essay I wrote for the Met’s production of Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles directed by Penny Woolcock.

Filed under: Georges Bizet, Metropolitan Opera

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