4Carmen was born by a comission made by Òpera de Butxaca i Nova Creació to four pairs formed by a librettist and a composer. The comission was to create four short pieces around the myth of the gypsy immortalized in the Merimee novel, but especially in Bizet’s opera. The resulting works from the workshop, despite its heterogeneous nature, are presented as a unit in the same evening that also aims to break, or rather approach, the boundaries between poetry and drama, between tonal music and more experimental. It is with this eclectic approach that the creators have been paired, seeking a contrast between different voices and styles.