A Little Write Music: If you love ‘Carmen,’ beware of LA Opera

The Los Angeles Opera should be thankful to Georges Bizet for writing such compelling music. Without it, their recent production of “Carmen” would have been horrific. To make matters worse, their mistakes were neither compelling nor thought-provoking; they reeked of timidity, which has no place in the performing arts. At least the music was nice! “Carmen” is not a story suited for interpretive restraint. Over three-and-a-half hours, we watch the titular “gitana” attack a coworker, escape the resulting imprisonment, be condemned to death by prophecy, fall for a bullfighter and eventually die by a jilted ex-lover’s hand.

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