Bizet: Carmen

Louis Langrée conducts the Metropolitan Opera in a performance of Bizet's masterpiece of the gypsy seductress, who lives by her own rules, no matter the cost. The opera's melodic sweep is as irresistible as the title character herself, a force of nature who has become a defining cultural figure. This drama-of a soldier torn between doing the right thing and pursuing the woman that he cannot resist-bursts with melody and seethes with all the erotic vitality of its unforgettable title character.