Sébastien Laudenbach’s ‘Viva Carmen’ Reimagines Bizet’s Opera for Contemporary Young Audiences

One of the more hotly anticipated work-in-progress sessions at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival was for “Viva Carmen,” a new feature from director Sébastien Laudenbach.  At the 2023 edition of the festival, his feature “Chicken for Linda!”—which he co-directed with his partner Chiara Malta—took top honors, and for good reason. It was a ravishing, vibrantly […]

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