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Carmen
Georges Bizet
Carmen
Opera in four acts (1875)
- Music
- Georges Bizet
- Libretto
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Henri Meilhac
Ludovic Halévy
- Conductor
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Bertrand de Billy
Giacomo Sagripanti
Mark Elder - Director
- Calixto Bieito
- Don José
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Roberto Alagna
Bryan Hymel - Escamillo
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Roberto Tagliavini
Ildar Abdrazakov - Le Dancaïre
- Boris Grappe
- Le Remendado
- François Rougier
- Zuniga
- François Lis
- Carmen
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Clémentine Margaine
Varduhi Abrahamyan
Anita Rachvelishvili
Elīna Garanča - Micaëla
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Aleksandra Kurzak
Marina Costa-Jackson
Maria Agresta - Frasquita
- Vannina Santoni
- Mercédès
- Antoinette Dennefeld
- Moralès
- Jean-Luc Ballestra
- Set design
- Alfons Flores
- Costume design
- Mercè Paloma
- Lighting design
- Alberto Rodríguez Vega
- Chorus master
- José Luis Basso
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine / Chœur d’enfants de l’Opéra national de Paris
French and English surtitles
Gala in aid of the Paris Opera’s activities.
Tarifs et réservations uniquement pour cette date : 0158186510 / galacarmen.fr
Audio-description on 25, 28 june, 2 july 2017
Ce spectacle fera l’objet d’une captation audiovisuelle
Une co-production Opéra national de Paris et Caméra Lucida avec le soutien du CNC et la participation de France 3, réalisée par François-René Martin.
Diffusion en léger différé sur Culture Box et France 3.
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"And taking the flower from her mouth, she threw it at me with a jerk of her thumb and struck me right between the eyes."Prosper Mérimée, Carmen
The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and express all that need be said: “Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame…” With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, the beautiful cigar-maker sets her sights on a soldier: Don José. Fate will do the rest. Though immediately regarded as a masterpiece throughout Europe, it took time for Carmen to win acceptance in Paris where it received a lukewarm reception at its premiere in 1875. Composed to a libretto by Meilhac and Halévy based on Prosper Mérimée’s novella, the opera exploded the boundaries between tragedy and comedy with a modernity that caused a scandal at the time. Can we kill the one we love with love? The fiery beauty of Bizet’s music, where one unforgettable aria follows another, has worked year in, year out to make it the world’s most performed opera.
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