IMPRESSIONS: Opera and Dance: "El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego" and "Carmen"
"Two operas seen within weeks of one another prompted me to contemplate how opera productions ask bodies to carry meaning. Some operas are conceived with dance at their core; others ask singers to inhabit their bodies so fully that dedicated choreography scarcely feels absent. What kinds of physical expressiveness best serve a particular opera may depend less upon convention than upon the aesthetic priorities guiding…