Home » Dueling Carmens

Comments

Dueling Carmens — 3 Comments

  1. Gymnastics has influenced it so much, the first is as if she is doing a floor routine… the second, is a neat trick to pull off, the appearance of a talented untrained person by a trained person, and so appears more natural and not staged and a more youthful exuberance to hide the nature of the character

    though i will say the arrangement of the score, and the cinematography also makes a difference…

  2. I much prefer the second, older dancer who really brings life to the character.

  3. The words (like a Rorschach blot) that come to mind for me with each dancer are; Zakharova – the grace of precision and for Plisetskaya – muscular, athletic, emotional, evocative.

    I must confess that I prefer Zakharova’s performance. Which I find interesting because in singers they are comparable to Streisand and Ronstadt and, I strongly prefer Ronstadt’s emotional performances to Streisand’s perfect phrasing, diction and tone. And in opera, though no connoisseur, I strongly prefer Callas for her ability to convey emotion.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

HTML tags allowed in your comment: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>