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Murder Most Unromantic in a New ‘Carmen’ at the Metropolitan Opera

The British director Carrie Cracknell’s production, opening on New Year’s Eve, resists the idea that the opera’s climactic scene is a crime of passion.

By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim

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‘Norma’ and ‘La Traviata’ Return to the Met Opera

Sonya Yoncheva doesn’t fill out the long lines of “Norma” at the Met, while Angel Blue is a warm, sincere Violetta in “La Traviata.”

By Zachary Woolfe