Carmen la Cubana - Chatelet Musical

Can Bizet’s famous opera, Carmen, be adapted for the modern world? Oscar Hammerstein II did it in 1942 with the Broadway hit Carmen Jones, which Preminger in turn adapted for the screen in 1954. The work now becomes a Cuban musical, the first of its kind, still based on Bizet but in Spanish and set in Havana, on the eve of the Cuban revolution.