Galina Altman on Instagram: "Carmen is currently on stage at Teatro Real — one of the most frequently performed operas in the world, yet presented here without its usual clichés. Director Damiano Michieletto strips the work of folkloric glamour and brings it back to raw human reality. His Carmen is not about exotic Spain or the myth of the femme fatale, but about choice, power, and violence. The setting is deliberately grounded and oppressive, where freedom is not a pose, but a risk. On the podi