Director’s
notebook

Notes, ideas, dramaturgy and personal pieces: the director’s voice before and after the curtain rises.

Director’s notes · Carmen

I killed her because she was mine

Carmen read as the chronicle of a gender-based crime, between the tablaos of La Rambla and the bitter Barcelona of the 1960s.

By Jaume VillanuevaExisting text · to be edited

Director’s notes · La traviata

The refined perversity of a world that turns Violetta into an object and victim of its social mechanisms.

By Jaume VillanuevaExisting text · to be edited

Open notebook

A future piece on bringing opera closer without simplifying it and building an audience that feels part of the stage.

By Jaume VillanuevaProposed new article