If an explosion of high romance is what you desire, where better to travel than 19th-century Spain? In Georges Bizet's most famous operatic work, Carmen, a gypsy woman stirs up passion and drama with her unapologetic and hedonistic embrace of life.Teatro Linco D'Europa offers its take on the famous work this week at UMass-Amherst.

Oct. 28, $15-40, UMass Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, UMass-Amherst, (800) 999-UMAS.