Theater maker Giovanni Brand has presented *CARMEN (must die)*, which examines who is responsible for Carmen’s death in Georges Bizet’s opera. The production describes the killing by her rejected lover as femicide and also raises the term “Romacide.”

Brand called Carmen one of the most toxic love stories and said he believed it was important to hear about femicide. The opera’s audience has for 150 years admired Carmen’s desire for freedom before watching her be killed by her rejected lover.