Daily Archives: January 29, 2024

THE MET’S CARMEN: BRILLIANT MUSICIANSHIP, BUT TEX-MEX IS NOT SPAIN.

“Bullfighting is the only art form that both represents something and is that thing at the same time: the matador’s elegant immobility in the face of the bull not only represents man’s defiance of death, it is a man defying death, and there are women who do it too.”[i] In Bizet’s classic opera Carmen, the metaphor of the life defying […]