(The Lyric has confirmed that the temporarily indisposed Eric Fennell will return as Don José for performances on September 30th and October 2nd.) The Lyric’s last-minute call for a substitute tenor on opening night resulted in the acquisition of an exceptional Don José who at times seemed as if he had dropped in from another opera, which in fact he had: Viktor Antipenko was plucked from a Tristan und Isolde he was preparing for Seattle Opera, and he brought a fascinating range of vocal textures and unexpected dramatic twists.
Keith Brumley, and naturalistic costumes by Susan Memmott Allred. It featured exceptional musical direction from conductor Roberto Kalb, a newcomer who made the Kansas City Symphony sound warm and vibrant, attractively durable set designs by longtime Lyric favorite R. The Lyric Opera’s most recent version, which opened on September 24th at the Kauffman Center, is refreshingly unfussy from both a musical and a dramatic standpoint.
Georges Bizet’s Carmen is an opera best presented in a direct and straightforward manner, for its strength lies not in deep complexities of character development but in its infectious music and playful archetypes of 19th-century French opéra comique.
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