When the average theatergoer thinks of opera, words such as "boring" or "hard to understand" may spring to mind. With the fall production of "Carmen," Don Rierson, director of the James Madison University Opera Theater, aims to change that.
For starters, he's cut the opera's runtime from more than three hours down to two, and has translated the bulk of the songs from French to English. The goal, he said, is to maintain the opera's integrity while allowing a larger group of people to e...
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