Opera Southwest is set to present “Beyond Carmen.”

The performance, scheduled for April 13 and 14, 2024, will feature mezzo-soprano, flautist, and percussionist Audrey Babcock and guitarist and percussionist Andrés Vadin as they explore an homage to Bizet’s famed opera and her musical roots.

“With Beyond Carmen we will explore her Sephardic roots, singing in Ladino or ‘Judeo Spanish,’ similar to ancient Castilian Spanish,” Babcock said in an official press statement. “We will play with the rhythms, textures, and accents of the marginalized people of the Diaspora, and most of all we will sing and cry out for the misunderstood experience of being fiercely female in a time that sees a woman’s strength as something dangerous, dark, and destined for annihilation.”

The concert kicks off at 6 p.m. on the 13th at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe and at 3 p.m. on the 14th at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque.