My husband bought me tickets to this for Christmas as he knows it is my favourite opera. I can safely say this performance may have ruined Carmen for me forever. The needless almost pornography, man being weed on and general overt sexual nature throughout was needless and off putting. There were children in the audience and the content was far from appropriate! That said I could have closed my eyes and enjoyed the music but no, the singing was average at best with only Carmen having a decent voice! Very disappointing and better in Italian just to top off the long list of things wrong with this performance!