Carmen's Last Dance:
One Hour Opera
10 October 2026 | 17:30
Carmen. Stripped to its beating heart.
Six singers, four instrumentalists and flamenco dancer Carlos Quintana bring Bizet’s masterpiece to life in sixty breathtaking minutes — performed in the extraordinary intimacy of the villa.
Carmen in 60 Minutes
The Habanera. The Toreador’s Song. The Card Scene. The final confrontation. Every iconic moment, distilled into one uninterrupted hour.
An International Cast
Starring Emma Roberts as Carmen, Matthew Curtis as Don José, Tim Alexander as Escamillo and Catherine Hooper as Micaëla.
Closer Than The Opera House
A semi-staged production performed at arm’s length from the audience, with six singers, four instrumentalists and flamenco dancer Carlos Quintana.
Desire. Defiance. Fate. Nothing extraneous.
Bizet wrote Carmen as a story of desire, defiance and fate. For this new production, Pavel Timofeyevsky has distilled the opera into sixty uninterrupted minutes, preserving its extraordinary dramatic arc and the music that has made Carmen one of the world’s most celebrated operas.
The Habanera, the Toreador’s Song, the Card Scene and the devastating final confrontation remain — without the conventional pauses and stops in between. The result is Carmen at its most concentrated: immediate, visceral and intensely theatrical.
Presented as an intimate semi-staged production, internationally acclaimed singers, instrumentalists and flamenco dancer Carlos Quintana perform just feet from the audience. There is no distant stage and nowhere for the drama to hide.
“A world premiere. Sixty uninterrupted minutes. Performed once, for this audience only.”