Vienna mounts woke Carmen
OperaA hostile reception was expected for Lotte de Beer’s new Carmen at the Volksoper, where the audience is treated to a frumpish heroine dressed head-to-toe in black and having little by way of the familiar character.
The French-born mezzo-soprano Katia Ledoux is a member of the Volksoper ensemble.
Stefan Ender wrote in Der Standard: ‘Ledoux’s Carmen seems somehow… woke. You could also imagine her doing gender studies with a latte macchiato with oat milk, when she’s not busy loving and suffering at the Volksoper as visual material in the director’s world of interpretation.’
photo: Barbara Pálffy, Vienna Volksoper
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