
27 Jan 2024

The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
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.
Sometimes hell is inside us
Jesús, a middle-aged man, finds out that he suffers from a venereal disease. Feeling guilty, he abandons his pregnant wife and flees to the countryside. In Pozoamargo, a small village lost in the middle of nowhere, he works as a grape harvester, living a simple existence, until he meets Gloria, a peculiar young woman.
Jesús
Gloria
José
Chinchilla
Fidela
Jesús' Wife
Soap Opera Character #2
Doctor
Foreman Arnau
Old Lady at Tobacco Store
Man Pushing a Bicycle
Priest
Soap Opera Character #1
Nurse
27 Jan 2024
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.
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