Carmen (2018)

This everpopular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Koskys highly physical production originally created for Frankfurt Opera The Australian director is one of the worlds most soughtafter opera directors whose Royal Opera debut with Shostakovichs The Nose in 2016 was greeted with delight For Carmen he has devised a farfromtraditional version incorporating music written by Bizet for the score but not usually heard and giving a new voice to the operas endlessly fascinating central character