A literary myth that has its roots in the novel of the same name by Prosper Mérimée and transcends picturesqueness with its sights set on the horizon of the struggle between social order and individual freedom. Its protagonists are, without wanting it or knowing it, absolute and tragic free will that prefers death rather than submission. Gall in Merimée, This Carmen will be the beat of a stormy heart of a Spain that will cease to be a geographical place to prefigure a psychological state of constant tension., rawness and destiny; cutting modernity where tragedy unfolds with devastating and contemporary clarity, which seems to be in constant psychological transformation.
Ted Huffman's career, the stage director who is redefining the molds of opera, continues unstoppable after being appointed general director of the Aix-en-Provence Festival. The New York regista premieres an avant-garde Carmen at Les Arts, away from the topic, deeply theatrical. The performers build their identity on a stage that has a life of its own., where changes of setting and costumes happen in full view of the public, who is a participant in an immersive experience. Vasilisa Berzhanskaya debuts in Valencia after having been praised in Vienna and Covent Garden as the best Carmen of today. Next to her, a great Don José, that of tenor Charles Castronovo, the Micaëla of the applauded Ruth Iniesta and the novel Escamillo that Davide Luciano debuts at the Salzburg Festival of 2026, all under the wise leadership of Michele Spotti.
