Last night my husband took me to our favorite restaurant and a one act opera at Yale. The opera was rather, how shall I put this? Dramatic. The director focused on the arc of Carmen rather than Jose, I gathered from his program statement that at one time in the opera world performing just one act of La Tragedie De Carmen was scandalous, but now it's a completely acceptable practice for small opera companies. Also, I learned at the Met in NYC the full opera includes live animals. (!) Yale includes subtitles for the audience, we found them distracting. I would have rather interpreted things on my own. We left with much admiration for this small and extremely talented company. Four stars.
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The Met has scrolling subtitles. I don't mind them. You can go back and forth, like viewing a movie with subtitles.
Sounds like a great date night.
It was great!
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