Opera Singers Give Library Patrons Teaser of Modern, Condensed Carmen

Opera singer Buffy Baggot gives 80-year-old Allan Ild of Berkeley some attention at the Berkeley Public Library downtown on Feb. 10 during a teaser performance of a modern and condensed version of Carmen, called The Carmen Fixation. The opera opens at the El Cerrito Performing Arts Theater on March 5. For more information visit www.westedgeopera.org. (Photo by Doug Oakley)

Opera singer Jillian Khuner sings at the Berkeley Public Library downtown branch during a teaser performance of a modern and condensed version of Carmen, dubbed The Carmen Fixation, on Feb. 10. The opera opens March 5 at the El Cerrito Performing Arts Theater. For more information visit www.westedgeopera.org.