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Ondrej Olos

Stage director

Tomáš Pilař

Set designer

Aleš Valášek

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Daniel Tesař

Choreographer

Mário Radačovský

Dramaturge

Patricie Částková

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Václava Krejčí Housková

Carmen

Jana Hrochová

Jolana Fogasova

Tenor

Mickael Spadaccini

Don José

Peter Berger

Luciano Mastro

Soprano

Daniela Straková-Šedrlová

Michaela

Jana Šrejma Kačírková

Baritone

Svatopluk Sem

Escamillo

Jiří Sulženko

Roman Hoza

Bass

Tomáš Šelc

Zuniga

David Nykl

Lenka Laurinčík Schallenberger

Mercedes

Jitka Klečanská

Martina Mádlová

Frasquita

Andrea Široká

Jakub Tolaš

Dancaire

Tadeáš Hoza

Igor Loškár

Zoltán Korda

Remendado

Petr Levíček

Jiří Brückler

Morales

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Brno

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Janáčkovo divadlo

Carmen Bizet

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Premiere on March 18, 2016 at the Janáček Theater director: Tomáš Pilař conductor: Ondrej Olos

A thin novel by the French writer Prosper Merimée about Don José, whose foolish passion for a wild Gypsy girl forces him to leave the army and become a smuggler and murderer, served as the base for one of the most famous opera. The success won its author, the French composer Georges Bizet, international fame. Bizet had never been in Spain but he loved exotic motives and the atmosphere of the story fascinated him. In his music, he masterly connected Spanish motives and French charm, giving the operatic world several immortal hits. Carmen directed by Tomáš Pilař returns more to the original story and reveals further layers of individual characters, who are mainly people coming from completely different environments. It is not only Carmen’s volatile and unchained love with which the jealous José cannot cope. It is the conflict of two worlds – the organized and tidy world of José and Micaëla, made up for preconcieved rules, and the world of gypsies and smugglers living from one day to another, without any law and governed by their impulses. These worlds suddenly intersect and the differences creates tension and conflict leading to the complete destruction of both the worlds. Nobody is able to prevent the inevitable because nobody is willing, or able, to give in.

English

Carmen by Bizet, From (2016/2016), Directed by Tomáš Pilař,, Conductor Ondrej Olos, Janáčkovo divadlo, Brno, Czech Republic

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