Carmen

Metropolitan Opera, NY, 2024

Perhaps the clearest vision of Carmen in Cracknell’s staging is also the most abstract. A series of entre-acte projections (by the team of by rocafilm/Roland Harvath) cast massive shadowy visions of Carmen’s world: the bars of a fence, the low glow of a dying flame. A silhouette of Carmen emerges from the blur, her hand pressed against the screen as though the opera itself had her trapped. For all of her talk of flight and freedom, Carmen remains a caged bird.

Washington Post, 2.1.2024