Today, the closest place to see a large opera like “Carmen” would be in Pittsburgh, but that was not always the case. Listening to music and seeing a performance that might have been known by past generations is something appealing to an antiquarian and therefore right up my alley. In this way we are able to get in touch with our past.
I think one would be hard pressed to find a large stage production still being performed 147 years after it was debuted. The opera “Carmen,” for example, was first performed at the Opera-Comique in Paris on March 3, 1875, according to the program. Pittsburgh Opera does a fantastic job of making its performances come alive. Therefore they hold up well in the 21st century. Even though the majority of the performances are extremely old, the themes, story line and passion of the productions still resonate with a modern viewer. In fact, one of our first dates was a trip to the Benedum to see “The Barber of Seville,” Gioachino Rossini’s 1816 masterpiece. The last time “Carmen” was performed in Pittsburgh was in 2015, and my wife and I saw it then, too. It wasn’t the first time we had seen the production.
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