CARMEN with Den Jyske Opera

Carmen is one of the most complicated opera heroines to understand. For how can she at the beginning stand up and say that she is “free as a bird”, only to believe in the end that it is her fate to seek out the man whom she knows will kill her? Ultimately, Georges Bizet’s hit opera from 1875 is about the fact that a man’s greatest fear is being laughed at, while a woman’s is being killed. One in five murders in Denmark is committed by a current or former partner. Carmen therefore becomes an image of all the murdered women we all too often hear about in the news, where we sit back uncomprehending and horrified and think: How could it happen? Carmen is sung in Danish with Danish surtitles. Danish translation: Jens Louis Petersen.