![]() ![]() In a backstage conversation between rehearsals, she showed little interest in talking about how online commentary seemed to hail her as the next Renée Fleming, the exceptional up and coming singer to watch (or to hear). She supplements those details with her own actor’s imagination. The story is every bit as timeless as a city where, in Thompson’s words, “The cafes, the back alleys never change – Seville never changes.”Ĭosta-Jackson’s relies on French author Prosper Mérimée’s original 1845 novella of the same name for details of her character’s life before the events of the 1875 opera. He knows and loves this opera.” (DeMain also conducted the VOA’s 2011 Aida.) good looking cast … wonderful, young, vibrant … if there is a perfect conductor it’s John DeMain. “Brilliant principals … great young cast …. Thompson has unstinting praise for his performers, and for conductor John DeMain. The production’s costumes, by Merrily Murray-Walsh, place events in the 1950s, but the literal, and very realistic setting is that of an unchanging Seville, says the director. It’s the tale of a hard living gypsy girl with life experiences far beyond her years – Costa-Jackson sees her as 17-18 years old – whose mutual passion for soldier Don José leads to what many people would consider a tragic conclusion, though Costa-Jackson does not. And then there was the Rita Hayworth movie ‘The Loves of Carmen.’ You can hear Carmen in the elevator, on muzak …” There was an episode of the Simpsons and Beyonce was in the hip-hop Carmen. He calls George Bizet’s final composition “the world’s most popular opera….You have so many wonderful projects that came out of Carmen. It’s under the direction of veteran stagecraft artist Tazewell Thompson, whose Pearl Fishers in 2012 delighted VOA audiences. A fast rising young Metropolitan Opera star-in-the-making mezzo who likes “once upon a time … happy ending” stories – Cinderella (La Cenerentola, Rossini) is the role Ginger Costa-Jackson most looks forward to playing some day – portrays the doomed title character of the Virginia Opera’s season closing Carmen. ![]()
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