Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Irene Roberts

Carmen

Tenor

Matthew Newlin

Don José

Soprano

Valeriia Savinskaia

Michaela

Baritone

Joel Allison

Escamillo

Bass

Byung Gil Kim

Zuniga

Meechot Marrero

Frasquita

Arianna Manganello

Mercedes

Dean Murphy

Dancaire

Ya-Chung Huang

Remendado

Sam Park

Morales

Stage director

Ole Anders Tandberg

Conductor

Dominic Limburg

Lighting designer

Ellen Ruge

Costume designer

Maria Geber

Set designer

Erlend Birkeland

Choreographer

Silke Sense

Chorus master

Jeremy Bines

Christian Lindhorst

Deutsche Oper Berlin

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Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

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Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

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Berlin

Germany

Carmen Bizet

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Listen to the French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine with Carmen´s Habanera of "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" from Georges Bizet's CARMEN: it is only the presentation aria with which Carmen introduces herself to the audience in Georges Bizet's opera of the same name. But at the same time this Habanera unites everything that has been written and thought about this female figure, that has been connected with her and projected into her: Sensuality and the art of seduction as well as the idea of a free love that eludes bourgeois conventions, the image of the enticing and at the same time destructive femme fatale as well as the idea of a self-determined femininity emancipated from male domination, eroticism as a play full of relish and at the same time dangerous, with the highest commitment.

Clémentine Margaine (Carmen) 
Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Musical direction: Ivan Repušić

Staging: Ole Anders Tandberg
Recording of 20 January 2018

Video by Chris and the FATSOX

With his CARMEN, Georges Bizet wrote a declaration of war on romantic opera: with her indomitable will for freedom, the title heroine embodies the opposite of the passive, suffering female characters who previously dominated the opera stage. But CARMEN is anti-romantic in an even broader sense: Bizet's opera shows a world in which love as an interpersonal feeling no longer has any place and has long since been replaced by sex and violence. Carmen and the torero Escamillo are representatives of this society, in which only the right of the strongest counts. A world in which Don José, with his bourgeois ideal of love, remains a doomed alien.

Carmen by Bizet, From (2022/2022), Directed by Ole Anders Tandberg,, Conductor Dominic Limburg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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