By Harry Rose 
Eye candy aside, looking at photos from this summer’s production at Glyndebourne (compared to this season’s at the Met), one wonders when the endless booty shorts bordersplotation of Carmen might end.
Photos: Richard Hubert Smith, Ken Howard, and Nina Wurtzel
Harry Rose, based in Providence, Rhode Island, is currently pursuing a PhD in Italian Studies at Brown University. Starting out blogging independently as Opera Teen in 2013, he holds the auspicious distinction of being the youngest writer to ever contribute to parterre box (at age 14) and has had the pleasure and challenge of writing for the rigorously discerning cher public since 2012. Increasingly niche hobbies and interests include opera, ballet, theatrical goings-on of the fin-de-siècle, and gatekeeping Camp.
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
