Maria de Buenos Aires

Piggybacking on the success of “Carmen,” Jeune Lune serves up a second spicy, Spanish-flavored opera—one that also stars the now-famous Baldwin sisters (who played the title role and Micaela in “Carmen”) as desirous but unattainable divas. This time, Dominique Serrand and company have chosen a little-known piece, perhaps a preemptive move to disable opera traditionalists who scoffed at Jeune Lune’s bare-bones instrumentation of the usually full-forced “Carmen,” as well as its previous tamperings with Mozart operas. The rest of us, however, are quite at home amid the minimal orchestration but larger-than-life singing that make a Jeune Lune opera. Forget the fat ladies! Jeune Lune feasts on passion and lust, reclaiming the sexiness, immediacy, and relevance of opera one production at a time. 105 First St. N., Minneapolis; 612-333-6200; www.jeunelune.org