Carmen - Opera - Season 18/19 Programming

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Opéra Bastille - from 11 April to 23 May 2019

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Opera Georges Bizet

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Opéra Bastille - from 11 April to 23 May 2019

3h00 with 1 interval

Language : French

Surtitle : French / English

Opening night : 11 April 2019

Carmen

Opera in four acts (1875)

After Prosper Mérimée

Music :

Georges Bizet

Libretto :

Henri Meilhac

Ludovic Halévy

Conductor :

Lorenzo Viotti

Director :

Calixto Bieito

Set design :

Alfons Flores

Costume design :

Mercè Paloma

Lighting design :

Alberto Rodríguez Vega

Chorus master :

Alessandro Di Stefano
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Maîtrise des Hauts-de‑Seine / Choeur d’enfants de l’Opéra national de Paris
Don José :

Roberto Alagna

11 > 20 avr.

Jean‑François Borras

23 avr. > 23 mai

Escamillo :

Roberto Tagliavini

Le Dancaïre :

Boris Grappe

Le Remendado :

François Rougier

Zuniga :

François Lis

Moralès :

Jean-Luc Ballestra

Carmen :

Anita Rachvelishvili

11 avr. > 8 mai

Ksenia Dudnikova

1 > 23 mai

Micaëla :

Nicole Car

11 avr. > 5 mai

Anett Fritsch

8 > 23 mai

Mercédès :

Valentine Lemercier

Frasquita :

Gabrielle Philiponet

About

In few words:

“Carmen will never surrender, born free, free will she die”cries Bizet’s heroine to Don José at the end of the opera. This irrepressible freedom, coupled with a need to live ever more intensely on a knife-edge, is present in Calixto Bieito’s production as in no other. Of Mérimée’s character, Bieito’s Carmen retains her thoroughly Iberian contours and the burning temperament of a woman who lives by small-time trafficking. However, the rebel bird is essentially a creature of our own times. A brazen and indomitable seductress and a product of social and masculine brutality, she lives life in the fast lane, avid for existence.