Carmen on Sydney Harbour

Granted, the weather was on our side, and it was touch and go until early afternoon, but it is difficult to beat the location! With the backdrop of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Sydney Opera House and the CBD and the Southern Cross as our ceiling, it was a beautiful show and an amazing performance from the singers.
The sound system was certainly playing too loud, but was of reasonable quality and it was certainly a technical feast to have all these wireless microphones working together without a hint of interference. Gone are the days when I was selling a top of the range brand in the 70s and it was a miracle to have TWO mikes working in the same space!
There were a bit of inconsistensies in the set and the costumes, I thought, as the director decided to set the opera in 1959, which was still under Franco dictatorship and a very conservative society, which didn't go well in my opinion with all flesh out of the female cast, more a Sydney summer sight than Seville in the 50s!
But, hey, who am I to comment? 
I did enjoy the vocal performance of Rinat Shaham as Carmen, Dmytro Popov as Don Jose, Andrew Jones as Escamillo and Nicole Carr as Micaela, certainly the purest voice on the set.
I also enjoyed the performance of the orchestra conducted by Brian Castles-Onion, an appropriate name for a Spanish sounding piece of music! Where the musicians were is still a mystery, but the conductor was visible to the performers from the stage on a giant screen behind the audience.
All in all, a lovely evening in a grand setting with even some fireworks to pepper the Show!
It is still playing tonight at 7.30 as well as tomorrow and Sunday night.
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