Name: Carmen
Start: 2006-12-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2007-02-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

Organization

Chanteur

Mezzo-soprano

Anna Caterina Antonacci

Carmen

Marina Domashenko

Ténor

Jonas Kaufmann

Don José

Marco Berti

Baryton

Ildebrando D'Arcangelo

Escamillo

Laurent Naouri

Soprano

Norah Amsellem

Micäela

Liping Zhang

Basse

Matthew Rose

Zuniga

Roderick Earle

Jacques Imbrailo

Moralès

Grant Doyle

Elena Xanthoudakis

Frasquita

Ana James

Viktoria Vizin

Mercédès

Liora Grodnikaite

Jean-Sébastien Bou

Le Dancaïre

Adrian Clarke

Jean-Paul Fouchécourt

Le Remendado

Harry Nicoll

Direction d'orchestre

Antonio Pappano

David Syrus

Philippe Auguin

Mise en scène

Francesca Zambello

Décors

Tanya McCallin

Costumes

Lumières

Paule Constable

Chorégraphie

Arthur Pita

Direction de choeur

Renato Balsadonna

Royal Opera House

français

Londres

Royaume-Uni

Internationally recognised director Francesca Zambello joins forces with Antonio Pappano, who conducts the ‘utterly compelling’ Anna Caterina Antonacci as Carmen and Jonas Kaufmann as Don José.

For this, his 17th and last opera, Georges Bizet took inspiration from the popular novella by Prosper Mérimée, which had enticed French readers with exotic tales of Spain. Its heady combination of passion, sensuality and violence initially proved too much for the stage and the opera was a critical failure on its premiere in 1875. Bizet died shortly after, and never learned of the spectacular success Carmen would achieve. Popular around the world, the opera has been performed more than five hundred times at Covent Garden alone.

The opera contains many much-loved numbers, such as Carmen’s seductive Habanera and Escamillo’s rousing Toreador Song, in which he celebrates the thrill of the bullfight. In Francesca Zambello’s 2006 production for The Royal Opera, richly coloured designs by Tanya McCallin capture the sultry heat of the Spanish sun, while ranks of soldiers, crowds of peasants, gypsies and bullfighters bring 19th-century Seville to life.

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