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Opera

More Grace Kelly than Grace Jones: Welsh National Opera’s Carmen reviewed

28 September 2019

9:00 AM

28 September 2019

9:00 AM

How do you take your Carmen? Sun-drenched exotic fantasy with a side order of castanets, or cool and gritty, sour with violence and politics? Jo Davies’s new production for Welsh National Opera seems unable to make up its mind. Sternly rejecting colour and fantasy, it then fails to commit to an alternative, leaving both its heroine and audience stranded in an unlovely theatrical no-man’s land.

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