My opinion:
I suppose it's natural for certain standard musical pieces to evoke a sense of storytelling. That said, if a skating routine must have this sort of verbal explanation to follow what is happening, then it means the skaters aren't doing a good enough job on the ice in terms of interpreting the piece.
I'd rather the skating speak for itself. Carmen is a difficult, innovative, and interesting ice dance. It can stand on its own merit. It doesn't need an appendix.
I always hit the mute button when the commentator begins, "They're skating to blahblahblah. This dance represents the soul of a dead raven, clawing its way through the arctic ice shelf in search of the single butterfly whose fluttering wings can change the course of history and save the endangered buffalo. She is portraying the buffalo, he the butterfly. The ice is the Arctic. The blades of their skates represent the piercing and plaintive squeak of the raven."
Whew! LOL - thanks, TontoK. I needed that after all the previous glorification of what V/M are radiating on ice.