50,000 people attended the Israeli Opera’s production of Bizet’s Carmen at the ancient desert fortress of Masada by the Dead Sea. The high notes were sung at the lowest point on Earth and when Carmen died on stage, the whole mountain was floodlit in a chilling blood red. Next year – Puccini’s Turandot.
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Lifestyle/Article.aspx?id=273848
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFDqsAnExOE