With Carmen, Enrique Gasa Valga dedicates himself to one of the most famous female characters in world literature and opera history - an icon of freedom, sensuality and independence. In a visually stunning, emotionally charged dance production, he tells the story of a love that is shattered by jealousy, desire and resistance to social constraints.

The play
Seville, 1820: Carmen is young, attractive and impetuous - and she knows her effect. No man can escape her spell, not even the naive soldier Don José. But Carmen is a free spirit: Her love is fleeting, her loyalty is to herself alone. When the celebrated torero Escamillo enters her life, she turns her back on José. The rejected man falls into raging jealousy - with a tragic outcome. The story unfolds in a maelstrom of desire, pride, rage and death.

The character of Carmen goes back to the novel by Prosper Mérimée (1847) and became world-famous through the opera by Georges Bizet. Her passionate story, steeped in Spanish atmosphere, bullfighting, great emotions and the urge for freedom, offers the ideal material for a powerful dance theater.