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Podcast: De Balie
Episode: Excavating Carmen, with Wu Tsang and Sophia Al-Maria
Description: In converation with Wu Tsang and artist and writer Sophie Al-Maria who together worked on the innovative Carmen opera that was presented by the Holland Festival last year.For her opera version of Carmen Wu Tsang cooperated with writer and artist Sophia Al-Maria. Together they worked on a hybrid opera-theatre piece that digs through the many layers of Carmen’s legacy: Carmen is a rebellious bird, a wandered, a hustler, a factory worker, a polylingual, shape-shifting lover, stateless and ungovernable. How do you create a new version of a story that is so canonical? Writer Enrique Fuenteblanca speaks...