Carmen is Georges Bizet's final opera and masterpiece, based on the novel by Prosper Mérimée. This time, it comes to the Real in a production by Damiano Michieletto, which sheds new light on the lust, violence, and passion of the popular opera. Great voices, like those of Aigul Akhmethsina, Michael Fabiano, Charles Castronovo and J'Nai Bridges will feature, along with the Orchestra of Teatro Real under the baton of Eun Sun Kim, the first woman to conduct an opera at the Teatro Real.
Opéra comique in four acts
Music: Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Libretto: Henri Meilhac y Ludovic Halévy, after Prosper Mérimée’s novel Carmen (1845)
Producers: Teatro Real, in co-production with Royal Ballet and Opera (London) and Teatro alla Scala (Milan)
Artistic team
Conductor: Eun Sun Kim e Iaki Encima (3,4 ene)
Stage director: Damiano Micheletto
Set design: Paolo Fantin
Costume design: Carla Teti
Lighting design: Alessandro Carletti
Chorus director: José Luis Basso
Children chorus director: Ana González
Cast
Carmen
Aigul Akhmethsina _ 10, 13, 16, 19, 23, 26, 29 dic
J’Nai Bridges _ 11, 14, 17, 20, 27, 30 dic; 3 ene
Ketevan Kemoklidze _ 2, 4 ene
Don José
Charles Castronovo _ 10, 13, 16, 19, 23, 26, 29 dic; 2, 4 ene
Michael Fabiano _ 11, 14, 17, 20, 27, 30 dic; 3 ene
Escamillo
Lucas Meachem _ 10, 13, 16, 19, 23, 26 dic; 2 ene
Luca Micheletti _ 11, 14, 17, 20, 27, 30 dic; 3 ene
Dmitry Cheblykov _ 17, 29 dic; 4 ene
Micaëla
Adriana González _ 10, 13, 16, 19, 23, 26, 29 dic; 2, 4 ene
Miren Urbieta-Vega _ 11, 14, 17, 20, 27, 30 dic; 3 ene
Zuniga
David Lagares
Moralès
Toni Marsol
Frasquita
Natalia Labourdette
Mercédès
Marie-Claude Chappuis
Le Dancaïre
Lluís Calvet
Le Remendado
Mikeldi Atxalandabaso
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Little Singers of the ORCAM
Synopsis and more information
In Seville, Carmen is a free-spirited gypsy woman who falls madly in love with Don José, a corporal in the guard. Driven by his love for her, and against the wishes of his mother and Micaela, he leaves behind his respectable career for a life of danger with Carmen and her smuggler friends. But Carmen soon tires of Don José's possessiveness and longs to return to her independent life. When Carmen sets her sights on the famous bullfighter Escamillo, Don José's jealousy and desperation lead him to kill her.
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