Carmen

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Carmen

Opéra Bastille - from 11 April to 23 May 2019

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Carmen

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

Certain scenes may be inappropriate for the young and the easily offended.

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.

Opening
First part 90 mn
Intermission 30 mn
Second part 60 mn
End

Carmen

Opera in four acts (1875)

After Prosper Mérimée

Music

Georges Bizet

(1838 - 1875)

Libretto

Henri Meilhac

Libretto

Ludovic Halévy

Conductor

Lorenzo Viotti

Conductor

Pierre Vallet

8 mai

Director

Calixto Bieito
Don José

Jean‑François Borras

11,14,17,20,23 Apr. > 23 May

Escamillo

Roberto Tagliavini

Le Dancaïre

Boris Grappe

Le Remendado

François Rougier

Zuniga

François Lis

Moralès

Jean-Luc Ballestra

Carmen

Anita Rachvelishvili

11 Apr. > 8 May

Carmen

Ksenia Dudnikova

11 > 23 May

Micaëla

Nicole Car

11 Apr. > 23 May

Micaëla

Maria Agresta

11,17 May

Mercédès

Valentine Lemercier

Frasquita

Gabrielle Philiponet

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Gallery

1/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) - Valentine Lemercier (Mercédès), Gabrielle Philiponet (Frasquita), Roberto Tagliavini (Escamillo), Anita Rachvelishvili (Carmen) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP

2/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP

3/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) - François Rougier (Le Remendado), Boris Grappe (Le Dancaïre), Gabrielle Philiponet (Frasquita), Anita Rachvelishvili (Carmen), Valentine Lemercier (Mercédès) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP

4/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP

5/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP

6/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) - Jean‑François Borras (Don José) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP

7/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) - Nicole Car (Micaëla) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP

8/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) - Nicole Car (Micaëla), Jean-François Marras (Don José) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP

9/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP

10/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) - François Lis (Zuniga), Anita Rachvelishvili (Carmen), Jean‑François Borras (Don José) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP

11/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) - Anita Rachvelishvili (Carmen) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP

12/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) - Anita Rachvelishvili (Carmen) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP

13/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) - Anita Rachvelishvili (Carmen) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP

14/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) - Gabrielle Philiponet (Frasquita), Roberto Tagliavini (Escamillo) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP

15/35 : Carmen (saison 18/19) - Gabrielle Philiponet (Frasquita), Boris Grappe (Le Dancaïre), Valentine Lemercier (Mercédès), François Rougier (Le Remendado), Anita Rachvelishvili (Carmen) © Emilie Brouchon / OnP