Carmen Jones (70th Anniversary)
Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour, VancouverIn the run up to Vancouver Opera’s production of Bizet’s perennial favourite "Carmen", a chance to hear the music in a radically different setting, in the groundbreaking film version of the Oscar Hammerstein’s all-Black Broadway musical with an electrifying Dorothy Dandridge—the first African-American to be nominated for an Oscar.