Sadler's Wells, LondonThis energetic, Cuban-ified version of Carmen Jones whizzes by, ricocheting from comedy to melodrama, intimacy to dancing crowdsCarmen La Cubana is a 2016 Cuban makeover of Oscar Hammerstein's 1943 Carmen Jones, itself an African American reimagining of Bizet's 1875 opera, in turn based on a metropolitan Frenchman's torrid historical fantasy of a Spanish Gypsy woman " and honestly, every one of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM on August 3, 2018