Carmen review – Costa-Jackson’s smouldering heroine blazes brightly
Royal Opera House, LondonGinger Costa-Jackson is an elemental and powerful Carmen in this revival of Damiano Michieletto’s 2024 staging that relocates the drama to Franco’s SpainDamiano Michieletto’s Carmen has plenty going for it. The Italian director’s colourful 2024 staging, revived here for the second time already, is an effective update of a work where sexual violence can feel normalised if…
Royal Opera House, LondonGinger Costa-Jackson is an elemental and powerful Carmen in this revival of Damiano Michieletto’s 2024 staging that relocates the drama to Franco’s SpainDamiano Michieletto’s Carmen has plenty going for it. The Italian director’s colourful 2024 staging, revived here for the second time already, is an effective update of a work where sexual violence can feel normalised if…
