Carmen

Bizet's opera is produced in star-studded style in the Royal Opera's classic staging, including Anita Rachvelishvili, Elena Maximova, Bryan Hymel, Yonghoon Lee and Jonas Kaufmann. Francesca Zambello's lavish 2006 production brings the saturated shades of 19th century Seville to life, with hordes of soldiers, peasants, gypsies and bullfighters surrounding a fiery central romance.