The Telegraph
English National Ballet’s new show may well be the worst dance version of Carmen around – which is especially sad to report, as ENB is a fabulous company, and this particular bar was already set far from high. For while Bizet’s extravagant 1875 banquet of melody and melodrama has repeatedly proved catnip for choreographers, of the five previous adaptations I’ve caught in Britain this millennium, only one – Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man (2000), which ingeniously relocated the fatal love triangle t