Last year, when Damiano Michieletto's production of Carmen first appeared at the Royal Opera House, Aigul Akhmetshina's ...

Aigul Akhmetshina is on the verge of becoming the definitive Carmen; in this first revival of Michieletto's 2024 production ...

Damiano Michieletto's production of Carmen has returned to The Royal Opera House, and, staying true to the original, you can expect passion, lust and violence. I was invited to see Carmen on its ...

Last year's new production of Carmen from Damiano Michieletto won critical acclaim. Directed as a verismo piece, Michieletto ...

It was fairly coolly received when it launched last year, but the Royal Opera’s production now seems to have found its ...

We have a Carmen that is damaged but who can still find moments of playfulness and innocence despite the cards she’s been dealt. The orchestra of the Royal Opera House – the invisible 'character' – as ...

Of course, Akhmetshina is universally accepted as the Carmen of our time, in demand for the role in opera houses throughout ... and sings with a gleaming bright, burnished tenor voice. The Opera House ...

Aigul Akhmetshina as Carmen and Freddie de Tommaso as Don Jose in the Royal Opera’s newly revived staging - Alastair Muir ...