Like the piece’s excellent design elements, Price’s fabulously diverse score (which ranges from jazz to smart innovations on Bizet) puts itself at the service of a potent and erotic choreography.
★★★★ The Telegraph

The whole is neatly zipped together by Dave Price’s terrific and witty, re-working of the familiar Bizet, Like Shchedrin’s version, it centres on rhythm which choreographer Didy Velman uses to full advantage.
SeeingDance

Dave Price’s recorded score is a clever Bizet puzzle picture with some melodies played (almost) straight and others distorted or disguised by his own jazzy, percussive embellishments.
Financial Times

Price’s score is the best thing in this creative mélange, cinematic, jazzy, complex percussion, with recognisable Bizet echoes for the relevant scenes.
British Theatre Guide

The popular themes of George Bizet’s opera are cleverly mixed into Dave Price’s modern, jazz-infused score. Nothing can improve on Bizet but it places his great music into a contemporary context that appears artistically appropriate to Veldman’s directorial vision.
Anyone seeking a straightforward interpretation of Carmen will be disappointed, although, just as Price does with the music, Veldman sneaks many heady flavours of Carmen into her modern interpretation and builds a scenario ripe with the key essences of sensuality, passion and jealousy. 
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