Name: Carmen
Start: 1997-09-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1997-11-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Norah Amsellem

Michaela

Wendy Nielsen

Mezzo-soprano

Denyce Graves

Carmen

Tenor

Plácido Domingo

Don José

Luis Lima

Thomas Moser

John Horton Murray

Baritone

Gino Quilico

Escamillo

Greer Grimsley

Emily Pulley

Frasquita

Kristine Jepson

Mercedes

Tony Stevenson

Remendado

Stephen Powell

Dancaire

Kim Josephson

Kamel Boutros

Morales

Michael Chioldi

Bass

James Courtney

Zuniga

Conductor

James Levine

Yves Abel

Stage director

Franco Zeffirelli

Costume designer

Anna Anni

Set designer

The Metropolitan Opera

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

The great singing actress Waltraud Meier stars as Carmen in Franco Zeffirelli’s sumptuous production of Bizet’s colorful opera. A beautiful gypsy driven by passion and love of freedom, she draws the soldier Don José, portrayed by the legendary Plácido Domingo, into a web of love and jealousy that will seal her fate. Angela Gheorghiu is Micaëla, the innocent girl Don José left behind, and Sergei Leiferkus sings the bullfighter Escamillo. James Levine leads the Met orchestra and chorus.

Carmen Bizet

Public

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading