It should certainly be entertaining, but it can also be so many other experiences. I love the idea someone will leave full of big questions, someone else will leave wondering what they just saw, another might leave furious because they were provoked. I never could expect 2,500 people to see the show exactly the same way. Theater is subjective everybody has a slightly different experience and I love that. PGN: Why “Carmen” in 2018? What is relevant and necessary about Bizet’s bullfighting and his dangerous love triangle?
Curran caught up with PGN on a rare day to himself in Philadelphia. Now, Curran returns to Opera Philadelphia with Bizet’s torrid “Carmen” at the Academy of Music April 27. Devan’s company was just gaining acclaim.
Along with famed, star-making turns as a wee young general manager of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, and as artistic consultant for the Central City Opera of Denver, Curran brought a bold and lively look to Opera Philadelphia’s plush 2015 “La traviata” at a time when Opera Philadelphia boss David B. As far as innovative opera directors go, Glasgow-born, out opera director Paul Curran is so ahead of the pack, he can hardly see behind him.
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