All it takes is the appearance of a hunky toreador and off she runs, towards tragedy.
It's a story that's been told countless times, many of them in dance, since the original Prosper Mérimée novella in 1845. This Carmen was created by the Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta and it's an expansion of a one-act ballet he made for the Royal Ballet in 2015, set to Rodion Shchedrin's orchestration of Bizet's opera score.
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