Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Agnieszka Rehlis

Carmen

Tenor

David Beucher

Don José

Baritone

Dariusz Machej

Escamillo

Soprano

Ewa Vesin

Michaela

Bass

Taras Kuźmych

Zuniga

Mariusz Ruta

Dancaire

Przemysław Borys

Remendado

Marta Brzezińska

Frasquita

Monika Ziółkowska

Mercedes

Maciej Nerkowski

Morales

Conductor

Grzegorz Berniak

Stage director

Beata Redo-Dobber

Lighting designer

Maciej Igielski

Choreographer

Zofia Rudnicka

Set designer

Costume designer

Chorus master

Violetta Bielecka

Ewa Barbara Rafałko

Joanna Motulewicz

Iryna Zhytynska

Joanna Dobrakowska

Monika Ledzion-Porczyńska

Rafał Bartmiński

Agnieszka Dondajewska

Anna Filimowska-Wolfinger

Magdalena Molendowska

Remigiusz Łukomski

Karolina Kuklińska

Anna Bernacka

Łukasz Załęski

Tomasz Madej

Mateusz Stachura

Spoken

Bartłomiej Łochnicki

Lillas Pastia

Rafał Supiński

Opera Podlaska

Bialystok

Poland

Europejskie Centrum Sztuki - Opera i Filharmonia Podlaska

Carmen Bizet

Public

Approved

Carmen is a liberated woman: she values her independence and is ready to follow her feelings, irrespective of the cost. She bravely faces the challenges of fate, which—like in a Greek tragedy—eventually brings her death. Although this may be hard to believe, the opera’s premiere was a complete and utter flop. Contemporary audiences could not stomach a work that contradicted the socially approved norms. With time, though, what turned the play’s opening night into a failure 140 years ago, became the source of its lasting popularity. Georges Bizet successfully transformed the opera scene of his time. His “Carmen” was a story of passion: a testimony of the human struggle with the timeless experience of love. Bizet introduced lifelike, contemporary people onto the stage and turned the title protagonist into a lasting, cultural symbol of female strength. Yet it is the music, full of Spanish exoticism and gypsy sparkle, that remains the greatest strength of “Carmen.”

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew