Barcelona Flamenco Ballet (BFB) tackles the ubiquitous myth of Carmen in its new project. This new reconstruction of Bizet's work brings new, hitherto unknown elements to flamenco.
It goes beyond the traditional conception in which it has been historically categorized, and adapts it to the reality of today's contemporary society. The values for which Carmen is today a woman of our time, and the adaptation of flamenco music and ballet with David Gutierrez's distinctive touch, place the work in a new paradigm of universal myth and 21st-century flamenco.
Despite the passage of time, Carmen maintains its message of freedom and courage in an unequal world where women continue to fight for their rights. Carmen is the prototype of a woman who faces up to a hostile and violent male world, which she does not survive, but leaves her example to posterity.
Carmen is pain, passion and a cry for freedom, feelings that flamenco art masterfully represents at its wildest and most primitive. BFB retells the story written by Prosper Mérimée about the love affair between Carmen the gypsy and Escamillo the bullfighter. Here too, flamenco language is the best vehicle for expressing emotions and the perfect motor for conveying the protagonists' passion.
Mérimée's characters, Bizet's music and BFB's flamenco merge in a show now open to the public. Lovers of opera, flamenco, dance, music, theater and the performing arts in general will discover a new aesthetic reference in this Carmen, where the blend of cultures and sensibilities will open the doors to 21st-century art.
With Carmen, Ballet Flamenco de Barcelone pays homage to Prosper Mérimée and his relationship with Spain, and Barcelona in particular. He knew the city, spoke Catalan and even the Caló language of the gypsies. For its links with Barcelona, for its love of diversity and the blending of cultures, BFB owes a great deal to the brilliant author Prosper Mérimée.
Despite the passage of time, Carmen maintains its message of freedom and courage in an unequal world where women continue to fight for their rights. Carmen is the prototype of a woman who faces up to a hostile and violent male world, which she does not survive, but leaves her example to posterity.
Carmen is pain, passion and a cry for freedom, feelings that flamenco art masterfully represents at its wildest and most primitive. BFB retells the story written by Prosper Mérimée about the love affair between Carmen the gypsy and Escamillo the bullfighter. Here too, flamenco language is the best vehicle for expressing emotions and the perfect motor for conveying the protagonists' passion.
Mérimée's characters, Bizet's music and BFB's flamenco merge in a show now open to the public. Lovers of opera, flamenco, dance, music, theater and the performing arts in general will discover a new aesthetic reference in this Carmen, where the blend of cultures and sensibilities will open the doors to 21st-century art.
With Carmen, Ballet Flamenco de Barcelone pays homage to Prosper Mérimée and his relationship with Spain, and Barcelona in particular. He knew the city, spoke Catalan and even the Caló language of the gypsies. For its links with Barcelona, for its love of diversity and the blending of cultures, BFB owes a great deal to the brilliant author Prosper Mérimée.
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On 7 February 2026
- 20:00
