It’s a fresh and exciting version that has the ability to make all audiences feel invigorated by a work that is a mainstay of the operatic canon. Many of us involved with the show feel the production holds a great mass appeal, and has the ability to bring people from many different backgrounds into the opera house.
The stormy relationship he has with Carmen is high-intensity: "It’s not that she’s the opposite of him. In fact, I think she brings out the parts of him that are really who he is, the killer inside of him. The aggressive, insecure man that he is. And she plays with those things, and they have these fights, and they have good times in the bedroom, and they have crazy times outside the bedroom fighting."