Name: Carmen
Start: 2022-10-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-10-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Sandnes Kulturhus

Organization

Singer

Tenor

Kjetil Støa

Don José

Mezzo-soprano

Ana Petricevic

Carmen

Eira Huse

Set designer

Hans Petter Harboe

Stage director

Einar Bjørge

Costume designer

Cristina Aceti

Pianist

Goedele Taveirne

Choreographer

Brigitte Bayer

Baritone

Aleksander Loe Myrling

Escamillo

Bass

Zaza Gagua

Zuniga

Marie Elise Hufnagel

Mercedes

Soprano

Olivera Ticevic

Frasquita

Lasse Land

Dancaire

Aksel Frisnes

Hannah Edmunds

Michaela

Steffen Sortland

Remendado

Mattis Austrheim

Morales

Orchestra

Opera Rogaland Sinfonietta

Orchestra Mediterranea

Opera Rogaland

Sandnes

Norway

Sandnes Kulturhus

Carmen Bizet

Public

Approved

In this production of Bizet's CARMEN, we get close to a young woman who is trying to find her way back to herself, who she is and why she is. Until now, she has tried in vain to erase the past, to flee from herself by constantly throwing herself into new short-term relationships. Then she meets the young Don Jose and gets to experience the great love - loving someone unconditionally for the first time. Don Jose leaves everything and everyone, even his fiancée, and throws himself into a new life with Carmen who lives on a walk with his gypsy friends from the shadow side of society. But their backgrounds and life experiences are too different, and soon it becomes as difficult to live together as to leave each other. When the past catches up with them, each in his own way, they are forced to make decisive and fateful choices. Within Bizet's dramatic and captivating musical universe,

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