Opera Company Refuses to Perform ‘Carmen’ Due to Concerns About Smoking

By Mark Hemingway
Published October 9, 2014 4:36pm ET
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Opera Company Refuses to Perform ‘Carmen’ Due to Concerns About Smoking
Not The Onion:  The 1875 work by Georges Bizet is one of the world’s most popular operas and the heroine, Carmen, works in a Spanish cigarette factory.   Carolyn Chard, General Manager of the [Western Australia] Opera, said the company made the decision not to program the opera after it secured the two-year deal with […]

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