Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: Carmen
(Credit: Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera) Act four of Bizet’s “Carmen.” The orchestra quiets down as hints of the most familiar theme of the opera, the first one audience hears, starts. It builds and builds and builds until it explodes with joy. With ferocity. With audacity. But on the Met stage, in Carrie Cracknell’s new production we get… a clown {…}