Performer: Tom Randle

Lindy Hume's new production works reasonably well in allowing the story to be told with sufficient emotional weight.

The Linbury re-opens its doors to opera with a new work whose libretto is superbly crafted by Francesca Simon, featuring a tour de force performance by Marta Fontanals-Simmons as the Norse goddess Hel.

A superlative performance of Carmen that was certainly among the most thrilling performances New Zealand Opera has put on in recent memory.