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Show Utah Opera opener to be 'Carmen' After you travel to Brigham Young University in Provo to learn how the opera, "Carmen," is interpreted for the stage, you can take your critical eye to Salt Lake City for a production of the tale of jealousy and passion by Utah Opera. The opera company will open its seventh season with performances perfor-mances of "Carmen" Oct. 10, 12, 14 and 16 at 8 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre. "Carmen" will be sung in French with an English translation transla-tion provided by Supertitles above the stage. The show is one of the world's three most popular operas and its music, by Bizet, is among the best-known of the operatic repertoire. The part of Carmen, the freedom-loving gypsy, will be sung by Colombian mez-zosoprano mez-zosoprano Marta Serin. After she opened the 1982-83 Washington Opera season at the Kennedy Cenbter with a spectacular per-formance per-formance of Carmen, Washington Times critic F. Warren War-ren O'Reilly wrote, "It was Senn's 30th personation of Carmen, though the first in North America, and she has made the role her own. "She has a clear voice, strongest in the lower register, which is well focused and projected." pro-jected." Senn recently completed a series of concerts with tenor Placido Domingo, which culminated in an April 1985 benefit concert for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Their program, consisting of operatic and zarzuela music, was so well received, encores were demanded, the pair was awarded the tail and both ears of a floral replica of a bull and Senn was saluted by critics for her "flashing eyes and voice." Senn, principal mezzo for Opera de Colombia in Bogota's Teatro Colon, in 1982 won first prize at two of the world's most important vocal competitionsthe competi-tionsthe Concours International Interna-tional de Chant de Paris and the Baltimore Opera National Auditions. Audi-tions. In addition to her training as a singer and actress, she is licensed licens-ed to practice law in Colombia. In 1983 she was appointed her nation's na-tion's unofficial cultural attache to its mission to the United Nations Na-tions by its president. Other guest artists for the production pro-duction will include Donald Hamrick (Don Jose), Ronald Dutro (Escamillo), Christopher Mattaliano as stage director and Daniel Lipton as conductor. Tickets, at $10 to $30, are available at the box office (50 West Second South) and at Datatix outlets. For more information, infor-mation, call 533-5555. |