Carmen, Royal Opera House, London
Royal Opera House, London: Francesca Zambello's 2006 staging returns for another revival. Even the original was less than distinguished visually, and this revival is certainly no better than its predecessors. Zambello seems to have thought of the piece more as a musical than an opera, only a musical with poor production numbers. The result is an evening that ambles between the corny and the ineffective. An oddit…