Podcast hosts Sean Lightfoot, Søren Karim and Christian Mølgaard take on Prosper Mérimée's novella Carmen from 1845, a classic of European literature that, in their words, has not aged well. Alongside operations chief Anne Barslev, they open up a conversation about the many operas in which so-called femmes fatales are especially vulnerable and female operatic heroines often die in the end.
The evening links the story to Bizet's opera Carmen and to present-day questions about why women are so often killed by partners, asking the uncomfortable question of how such things can happen. The event is part of the Danish Opera's autumn production of Carmen.
