Carmen Trailer - English National Opera Production

Now probably the most popular opera in the world, Carmen scandalised its earliest audiences with its raw depiction of lust among the low-lifes of 19th-century Seville.
This new English National Opera production at the London Coliseum rejects Carmen's traditional touristic trappings and presenting it instead as a full-on battle of the sexes, fought out in the near-mythic arena of a symbolic Spanish bullring, Calixto Bieito's hugely popular production (already seen and enjoyed by audiences across Europe and South America) is arguably truer to the spirit of Bizet's original conception than most more conventional stagings you'll ever see.