Carmen with cha-cha-cha: adaptation with all Cuban cast opens in Paris

Reimagined in 1950s Cuba and directed by Christopher Renshaw, Carmen la Cubana will open at the Théâtre du Châtelet over 140 years after Paris debutIt is Carmen, but not as we know it, and almost certainly not as French composer Georges Bizet intended. A new version is mixing opera and the Broadway adaptation with some Latin American cha-cha-cha thrown in for good measure. Continue reading...