Opera and Dance: Carmen
... Carmen SCOTTISH OPERA GRAHAM Vick's production of Carmen, restaged by Paul Maloney for Scottish Opera, fills the stage with life, love and death from the first notes of the overture. It is a very theatrical staging, imaginative and visually exciting. English mezzo Jean Rigby is a bold and bonny Carmen, with a rich dark voice which sounds almost laid back, as if there is an enormous sound wait ...