"Maria Serrano does not just play, she is the wounded, proud, indomitable Femme Fatale, whichs catapults the social drama from the gipsy mileu into modern Sevilla battered by the financial crisis ... Body control, footwork, isolations and expression are still unsurpassed." - Mainzer Allgemeine Zeiung /Germany

"A single movement of Maria Serrano´s hand says more about the feelings of this freedom-thirsty Carmen than – with all due respect – any French opera text" – Hamburger Abendblatt / Germany

"Simply by her sensual presence and brilliantly controlled dance vocabulary , she conceives and creates the Carmen figure." – Hamburger Morgenpost / Germany

"Maria Serrano dances Carmen, a Carmen neither Georges Bizet nor any other man could have pictured any better." Süddeutsche Zeitung /Germany