Arts & Culture
Rome Production of Bizet’s Carmen Features ICE Agents, #MeToo
Argentine director Valentina Carrasco sets her interpretation of the opera classic at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Andeka Gorrotxategui and Ketevan Kemoklidze.
Photographer: Yasuko KageyamaYou’ll know before the house lights dim at the Rome Opera House that this isn’t your grandmother’s Carmen.
Performed outdoors against 3rd century ruins at Terme di Caracalla, this milestone production includes pole dancing, transgender prostitutes, jaw-dropping stagecraft, and the most alluring mezzo-soprano in the world right now: Republic of Georgia–born Ketevan Kemoklidze.