Striding about the stage, Kezia Bienek is all about power, ratrher than sex. Her Habanera is less a come-on than a lead-on, a musical game at the expense of the men who surround her. Bienek's Carmen commands the stage, her even toned mezzo does the seducing, showing some heat in the Seguidilla, but at it's best in the sterner lines of the "card aria", En vain pour eviter

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The Telegraph