Organization

Grimeborn Opera Festival

Stage director

Joanna Turner

Lighting designer

Joe Price

Costume designer

Marina Hadjilouca

Conductor

Leo Geyer

Set designer

Stage combat master

Natalia Willot

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Felicity Buckland

Carmen

Susannah Horowitz

Tenor

Jonathan Cooke

Don José

Soprano

Claire Wild

Michaela

Baritone

Nicholas Morris

Escamillo

English

London

United Kingdom

Arcola Theatre

Public

Approved

When supermarket check-out girl Carmen brazenly flirts with the new security guard Don Jose, much to the confusion and embarrassment of his fiancée Micaela, things get even more complicated as Carmen’s ex-boyfriend turned TikTok celebrity Escamillo also shows up.

Follow our characters’ entangled love stories in this bold contemporary re-imagining of the classic Carmen story for London life today.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Co-Producer