I'm thrilled to have written a blog for Gramophone about the Prosper Mérimée (the writer of the novella Carmen, on which Bizet's opera was based), creativity and what happens when you have a midlife crisis and your lead character turns up in your study with musicians in tow and starts to deconstruct your writing...
Catch performances of Creating Carmen with CarmenCo directed by Nicholas Renton starring Suzanne Ahmet as Carmen & Robin Soans as Mérimée in Brighton (22 Nov) and Liverpool (24 Nov) and more from next year for Concerts in the west, Stranraer & Peebles.
