In the programme for Bizet’s Carmen, Kasper Holten (Director of Opera at ROH) remarks that the title character is a mysterious figure, and that “we can never really know who she is”. This seemed ironic: even at the end of the opera, I was not left with a clear idea of which aspects of this complex character (or, indeed, of Don José) this production wanted to bring out.
Read my review at Musical Criticism.
Katy Wright 