@enidlareg2: "Look away if you don't know want to know the results!
(No comments on singing or playing or performing. But I ain't selling my 
ticket for next week...)
Basically, it's set in a railway station with theatrical boxes, and as 
Mrs T Correctly predicted a great big mountain of taurus excretus 
dominates the stage in Act IV. All in very modern dress, and with very 
minimalistic movement, Kabuki-style, I think. A giant egg timer 
dominates Act 1-3 slowly showing the passage of time and the inevitable 
countdown to Carmen's demise.
Act III is interesting because rather than being set in the mountains 
between Gib and Seville, it's actually set on the Moon. And Escamillo is 
an astronaut who arrives on a sort-of mini space shuttle for one.
SJT is going to hate it...
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I doubt whether he'll be alone in that!!!  The Carmen 
"update" to the Spanish Civil War at least had some logical 
cohesion, even though it radically changed the motivations 
of some of the characters.  IMO, something in the nature of 
what you describe has no VALID purpose at all, aside from 
further inflating the ego of whatever egomaniacal idiot 
conceived and staged it!"
    @enidlareg2: "This evening I walked into the Tube Station, onto an empty platform 
because a) it was my top secret quiet and empty Tube station and b) I 
had just missed a train. I turned right to walk down the platform to the 
front of where the next train would be, and my attention was attracted 
by a poster in the corner of my right eye. A poster showing an expanse 
of naked flesh. I looked more closely, it was male flesh. Then I spotted 
the ROH logo, and realised it was the poster for Carmen. It was a 
picture of a male person, wearing no shirt,  with long flowing dark 
locks passionately kissing a woman. The man could conceivably have been 
Jonas Kaufmann although I suspect it was a body double.
I was wondering though, whether I have grounds to complain to the 
Advertising Standards Authority, because I have no recollection of bare 
torsoed men, and y'know, I think I would have noticed, even from Row P 
and sans binoculars...
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