Elīna Garanča – review

Barbican, LondonThe Latvian mezzo Elīna Garanča has already sung Carmen with distinction at Covent Garden and the Met, and here she brought the role – or at least its major highlights – to the concert platform. She even included something audiences are unlikely to hear in the opera house: an early setting of the Habanera that Bizet was persuaded to replace by the first exponent of the role, Célestine Galli-Marié. It's a perfectly attractive piece of writing, though it lacks the sense of...

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