![]() ![]() Listen closely, and you’ll find that the singer should have shared her cotton candy with her friends, and absolutely will … tomorrow. See, you might think that Carmen is relating her views on love, but no. The other ones: the words, at least, as they are now known to my 6-year-old daughter and the hundreds of children who took grown-ups like me to the Kennedy Center here recently for the premiere of “The Ice Cream Truck Is Broken! & Other Emotional Arias,” an experiment, including a short new work by the composer Carlos Simon, in what it might mean to draw a very young and impossibly demanding audience into a life in opera. ![]() ![]() WASHINGTON - Do you know the words to the Queen of the Night’s stratospheric showcase from “The Magic Flute”? Maybe the Duke’s famous tune from “Rigoletto”? Carmen’s Habanera? ![]()
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