Opera Australia gives us a rocking Carmen for the post-#metoo era

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The story of Carmen, in the 19th century opera by French composer George Bizet, is, at its simplest, the story of a developing tension between Carmen, a stereotypically racialised woman attempting to break free from society’s impositions and her already-written fate.

Anne-Louise Sark’s adaptation takes that conflict much further.