Previously for Longborough Festival Opera:
Die Tote Stadt, 2022; Tristan und Isolde 2015 and 2017.
Productions include: semi-staging Die Walkuere Act 1 for the inaugural gala of Festival Theater Hudson NY October during Covid via Zoom; Il Trovatore, Un Ballo in Maschera, Don Giovanni, for Winslow Hall Opera, UK; John Harbison’s Full Moon in March at the London Festival of American Music; the world premiere of Nicola LeFanu’s Dream Hunter in Wales and London; Tristan und Isolde semi-staged for Stavanger European City of Culture, Norway; The Women of Troy – a chamber opera by Dimitris Maramis for RWCMD Cardiff; Baroque Opera Scenes for RWCMD; Orfeo for Birmingham Conservatoire.
Theatre productions include Farinelli and the King by Claire van Kampen for SouthWest Shakespeare Company Mesa, Arizona; Strindberg’s Miss Julie, Goethe Theater Frankfurt, Germany; many productions for Triangle trilingual Theatre Company Cardiff she co-founded, including Becket’s Waiting for Godot (in French) and Brecht’s Mother Courage and her children (in German), Shakespeare scenes for RWCMD. Associate Director on Anthony Negus’s and Alan Privett’s legendary 2013 Der Ring des Nibelungen for LFO. Staff director for WNO. Revival director for Stephen Medcalf’s Seraglio in Thessalonica Greece. She worked extensively in Italy assisting Stephen Medcalf, also in Valencia Spain.
Carmen read modern languages at Freiburg University Germany and Drama at the Sorbonne Paris. She trained on the Postgraduate Course in Theatre Studies at the Sherman Theatre Cardiff and at Welsh National Opera Cardiff Wales.
Carmen is grateful to Jungian analyst the late Tia Kuchmy for sharing her insights that helped shape her production concept. She would also like to thank psychoanalyst Hella Ehlers for sharing her insights into the psychology of Tristan und Isolde from a Freudian point of view.