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“During the first act, Carmen felt the sand scratching her throat and damaging the quality of her singing, and so during intermission, despite attempts by the production crew to lubricate her voice with remedial concoctions, and despite assurances that the evil wind would die down, she refused to continue performing her role in the second act, for fear that her professional reputation would be tarnished. In art, she decreed, there are no excuses or allowances, and she demanded to be driven back to the hotel. It would now take time to bring in the understudy and prepare the audience, not only for a change of voice, but for a different version of the opera’s title character.
Honi and his mother arrived at the Dead Sea in late afternoon, and since their hotel was far from Noga’s, they did not manage to see her before the performance, but the three agreed to meet for lunch the next day, before their drive home. “I do realize,” Noga told them on the phone, “that you came to this opera for a... donkey dragging two little kids in a cart, but try to enjoy the music too.”MoreLess
Honi and his mother arrived at the Dead Sea in late afternoon, and since their hotel was far from Noga’s, they did not manage to see her before the performance, but the three agreed to meet for lunch the next day, before their drive home. “I do realize,” Noga told them on the phone, “that you came to this opera for a... donkey dragging two little kids in a cart, but try to enjoy the music too.”MoreLess
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