PARIS/FRANCE: Based on Carmen by Bizet and the eponymous novel by Prosper Mérimée
. On a Oscar Hammerstein II’s idea (Carmen Jones).
The first Cuban musical

Can Bizet’s famous opera, Carmen, be adapted for the modern world ? Oscar Hammerstein II did it in 1942 with the Broadway hit Carmen Jones, which Preminger in turn adapted for the screen in 1954.

Carmen la Cubana, at Theatre du Chatelet in April

The work now becomes a Cuban musical, the first of its kind, still based on Bizet but in Spanish and set in Havana, on the eve of the Cuban revolution. Today, Carmen is still working in a cigar factory, but the Habanera has returned to its country of origin!

Coproduction: Théâtre du Châtelet, BB Promotion