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Australian Arts

Martin Clunes

17 July 2021

9:00 AM

17 July 2021

9:00 AM

Just as the lockdown imprisons the people of Sydney those in Canberra have had the chance to see that exhilaration of an opera Carmen. Bizet’s opera about the Spanish siren who sings the smoky sensuous ‘Habanera’ is tragic in its resolution but full of the heat and desire of pent-up energy, to scorching and spectacular effect.

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