RUN OPERUN presents Carmen P*čo

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What is Carmen actually about? Freedom and desire? Love? The idea that we can possess the person we love? Carmen has become a symbol of untamed femininity, yet for a hundred and fifty years, her story has always ended the same way. We have no intention of ignoring the famous libretto’s gender stereotypes or demurely fixing them. We are bringing them to light, subverting them, commenting on them and exploring what remains of the story when we stop believing in it one hundred percent.

No opera is created in a vacuum. Thus, the world in which we make it today steps into Carmen: its rules, money, grants, subsidies, and the daily reality of the independent cultural scene. Along with it come the clients of Jako doma (Home like), an organization working with women experiencing homelessness. The question of freedom momentarily ceases to be about just one famous opera…