THE Parkhouse Centre, Bude, will host Carmen, a production by the Cube Theatre Company and Duchy Opera.

On October 27, at 7.30pm, Duchy Opera presents a new touring production of Georges Bizet's famous work, directed by Cube's Benjamin Symes, with musical director Paul Drayton.

The story of the wild gypsy girl, Carmen, and her doomed romance with an infatuated soldier has some of the most dramatic and memorable music ever written, and is rightly regarded as a masterpiece.

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