»Best Carmen since the 1970's« - press and audience agree on Bizet's opera

Is it possible to combine life-affirming passion and complete freedom? Carmen is working in a factory that produces souvenirs for the tourist trade. She wants to be free, and she believes she can love anyone she wants. One day her eyes fall on the young supervisor José. Their passionate encounter is the beginning of a violent story of love, jealousy and death.

In Johanna Garpe’s acclaimed version, Carmen is a mature, creative, rebellious and sexually liberated woman. The current production premiered in spring 2019. The daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet welcomed it as “a Carmen worth waiting for”.