Name: Carmen
Start: 2022-01-26
End: 2022-01-26
Location: Špilberk Castle

Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Jolana Fogasova

Carmen

Václava Krejčí Housková

Jana Hrochová

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

Martina Mádlová

Frasquita

Andrea Široká

Lenka Laurinčík Schallenberger

Mercedes

Jitka Klečanská

Jakub Tolaš

Dancaire

Igor Loškár

Zoltán Korda

Remendado

Petr Levíček

Jiří Brückler

Morales

Stage director

Tomáš Pilař

Conductor

Ondrej Olos

Robert Kružík

Lighting designer

Daniel Tesař

Costume designer

Aleš Valášek

Set designer

Choreographer

Ladislava Košíková

Dramaturge

Patricie Částková

Chorus master

Pavel Koňárek

Tadeáš Hoza

ND Brno

French

Brno

Czech Republic

Janáčkovo divadlo

Špilberk Castle

Mikulov

Amfiteatr

Carmen Bizet

Public

Czech

English

German

Approved

Premiéra 18. března 2016 v Janáčkově divadlerežie: Tomáš Pilařdirigent: Ondrej Olos

Freedom in love or death.

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.

Carmen by Bizet, Wed 26 Jan 2022, From (2021/2022), Directed by Tomáš Pilař,, Conductor Ondrej Olos, Robert Kružík, Špilberk Castle, Brno, Czech Republic

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