"Carmen" Wows 'Em!

According to my sources, last weekend's performance of "Carmen" in Charleston was a huge success - in fact, it was the first show for the West Virginia Symphony to manage a complete sell-out at the Clay Center - all 1,716 seats!

I'm not surprised - it was a terrific performance, featuring some amazing talent, and the Clay Center is the perfect venue for the show. At the end of the performance, the applause was loud, boisterous and well deserved!

A correction to my review, by the way. I wrote:

"I'm not sure the leads even needed microphones, as their powerful, pure voices rang out through the theater."

Turns out the joke was on me - they weren't wearing mics at all, which makes the power of their voices and the theater's wonderful acoustics that much more impressive - especially considering they were singing over the orchestra! Now that's talent!

It's wonderful to hear the show was such a success - hopefully that means we'll be seeing more operatic productions in the future.

But they'll have a tough time topping this one!