Director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day, in a contemporary American industrial town.

Opera lovers flock to performances ... Yet what this Carmen really adds to the legacy of this star-crossed lovers story are a pair of movie stars. You can’t underestimate the sheer pleasure ...

At the same time, Zambello’s durable version of “Carmen,” which originated in 2006 and was last seen in San Francisco in 2019, doesn’t stint Bizet’s local color, which was to the delight ...

Carmen is not only a poor woman in a rich man’s world, but a gypsy – one of the most marginalised groups of any society, in any era. Clémentine Margaine as ...