Reimagining ‘Carmen’ for a new generation

Moveo Dance Company is staging a dramatic new interpretation of Bizet’s 1875 opera at the Manoel Theatre on Friday and Saturday

Moveo Dance Company is this weekend presenting a dramatic new interpretation of Bizet’s 1875 opera Carmen at the Manoel Theatre, choreographed and directed by Moveo founder and artistic director Dorian Mallia.

It’s a tale of a free-spirited Romani woman who ignites a destructive passion in a Spanish soldier named Don José, whose infatuation leads him to abandon both duty and reason. When Carmen rejects him in favour of the celebrated bullfighter Escamillo, his obsession culminates in tragedy.

Read more about the show on Times2.

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