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Flower Power: Don José and Dangerous Love in Bizet's Carmen

You hear the message over and over in pop culture: love overcomes everything. But when Don José sings “The Flower Song” in Bizet's Carmen, you're reminded that love has a dark side, too. In the Season 1 finale, host Rhiannon Giddens welcomes tenor Roberto Alagna, critic Anne Midgette and psychologist Andrew G. Marshall to consider the crazy, possessive side of love and the importance of experiencing art that doesn’t have a fairy-tale ending. Then, you’ll hear Alagna sing the role of the passionate and violent Don José onstage at the Metropolitan Opera.

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  Love and Other Drugs: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette

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  You Don't Own Me: The Myth and Magic of Bizet's Carmen

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  Revisiting Mozart’s Queen of the Night: Outrage Out of This World

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  Love Takes Flight: Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas

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  Davis’s X: The Life and Legacy of Malcolm X

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  Revisiting Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice: Don’t Look Back in Ardor

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  Good Things Come to Those Who Weep: Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore

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  Death, Faith, and Redemption: Heggie’s Dead Man Walking

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  Aria Code Returns for Season 4!

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  P.S. I Love You: Renée Fleming Sings Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

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  To Be Or Not To Be: Dean's Hamlet

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  Potion, Emotion, Devotion: Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

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  Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Boy of Peculiar Grace

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  Verdi's Nabucco: By the Rivers of Babylon

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  Once More Into the Breeches: Joyce DiDonato Sings Strauss

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  Breaking Mad: Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor