Washington National Opera's 'Carmen' is halfway through run

Washington National Opera's production of "Carmen" is halfway through its run. The company has fielded a second cast for the four lead roles, heard on Friday night at the Kennedy Center Opera House.French mezzo-soprano Géraldine Chauvet, who was a nondescript Fenena in WNO's "Nabucco" in 2012, had much less vocal heft than Clémentine Margaine, her counterpart in the first cast. Chauvet's Carmen was a saucy flirt rather than a femme fatale, and where there was almost no laughter in the audience...