The production team behind Bizet’s "Carmen" at the Metropolitan Opera has demanded their names be stripped from programmes. This follows a dispute over the company’s decision to bring back sets from a retired 2009 version of the opera.
Director Carrie Cracknell’s staging, her Met debut on 31 December 2023, controversially relocated the action from 19th-century Seville, Spain, to a modern American industrial town. In this interpretation, Escamillo was reimagined as a rodeo star, not a bullfighter.
