My life was free, and I want to die free too!
Carmen Carmen
is a femme fatale – passionate, sensual, erotic. A woman who uncompromisingly rejects the moral concepts of her time and society; a woman who longs for love and yet finds none; a woman you're willing to kill for, or kill before someone else gets her. When CARMEN was first performed in 1874, it unleashed a veritable storm of indignation, so shocked was the ruthless realism of the plot and the music, which was all too progressive for the taste of the time. But after just a few performances, the work made its way and established Bizet's fame.