On The Buffalo News' Gusto Blog today I wrote about the "Carmen" coming up in the Metropolitan Opera's High-Definition Summer Encore series.
Thinking about "Carmen" makes me think of my friend Gary.
Last summer, or maybe it was the summer before that, Gary joined a construction crew working on Grant Street on Buffalo's Lower West Side.
He saw the advantages to working on the crew. He said, "Now I can ogle girls freely."
Not only that but he was working near this business where every day the girls came out on break and sat around smoking, just as they did in "Carmen."
It was "Carmen" come to life! I braced myself for the worst. But luckily everyone came through that summer OK. They only narrowly did! There were some close calls as I remember.
I read somewhere that one of the biggest fans of "Carmen," when it first came out, was Johannes Brahms. He went to see it multiple times. I love that, the idea of Brahms going to "Carmen."
I can see what he liked about it! It is a first-rate drama.
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