Excavating Carmen, with Wu Tsang and Sophia Al-Maria

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In converation with Wu Tsang and artist and writer Sophie Al-Maria who together worked on the innovative Carmen opera that was presented by the Holland Festival last year.

For her opera version of Carmen Wu Tsang cooperated with writer and artist Sophia Al-Maria. Together they worked on a hybrid opera-theatre piece that digs through the many layers of Carmen’s legacy: Carmen is a rebellious bird, a wandered, a hustler, a factory worker, a polylingual, shape-shifting lover, stateless and ungovernable. How do you create a new version of a story that is so canonical? Writer Enrique Fuenteblanca speaks about it with Wu Tsang and Sophia Al-Maria.

Carmen and Carmen

From 20 December to 12 January, award-winning filmmaker and multimedia artist Wu Tsang presents Carmen and Carmen: a film installation, along with a program of films, talks and performances, that together explore the myth of Carmen in conversation with her collaborators.

In cooperation with Hartwig Art Foundation.

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