Before the broadcast of The Met: Live in HD’s Carmen, enjoy a sampling of prints, drawings, and photographs that set the stage for the show’s reimagined setting of an industrial American town, and reinvigorated themes of the femme fatale, lust, and the dark sides of love.

Free.

Image: Max Klinger, First Encounter (detail), 1887, etching, engraving, and aquatint on wove paper. The Clark, purchased with funds from Thomas F Baron, 2014.5