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Carmen La Cubana review " revolutionary makeover is a bumpy but heady ride by Sanjoy Roy

Sadler's Wells, LondonThis energetic, Cuban-ified version of Carmen Jones whizzes by, ricocheting from comedy to melodrama, intimacy to dancing crowdsCarmen La Cubana is a 2016 Cuban makeover of Oscar Hammerstein's 1943 Carmen Jones, itself an African American reimagining of Bizet's 1875 opera, in turn based on a metropolitan Frenchman's torrid historical fantasy of a Spanish Gypsy woman " and honestly, every one of …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM on August 3, 2018

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