Wu Tsang Reimagines the Tragedy of 'Carmen' in Barcelona

Housed inside the Gothic chapel of MACBA's Capella, Wu Tsang reimagines the story of Carmen with radiant motion. While she takes clear thematic cues from Georges Bizet's original version, "La gran mentira de la muerte (The big lie of death)" both explores and interrogates the piece's deep-seated themes, bringing together the ritual performance of death with cinema's own haunting traditions.The opera, composed in 1875, famously centers on the tragic fate of its heroine, though unlike Bizet's tell...