Organization

Tenor

Rodrigo Porras Garulo

Don José

Mezzo-soprano

Dubravka Šeparović Mušović

Carmen

Irena Parlov

Soprano

Lana Kos

Michaela

Valentina Fijačko

Darija Auguštan

Josipa Lončar

Baritone

Giorgio Surian

Escamillo

Davor Radić

Viktorija Đurđek

Frasquita

Lucija Jelušić

Tena Lončarević

Mercedes

Emilia Rukavina

Margareta Matišić

Davor Nekjak

Morales

Marin Čargo

Bass

Siniša Štork

Zuniga

Marko Spehar

Singer

Mikheil Sheshaberidze

Jurica Jurasić Kapun

Dancaire

Ivan Šimatović

Ivo Gamulin

Remendado

Tvrtko Stipić

Stage director

Arnaud Bernard

Conductor

Josip Šego

Marcello Mottadelli

Lighting designer

Fiammetta Baldiserri

Costume designer

Carla Galleri

Set designer

Video designer

Chorus master

Luka Vukšić

Translator

Zlatko Wurzberg

Directing associate

Yamala Irmici

Concert Masters

Vjekoslav Babić

Nina Cossetto

Supervisors

Aleksandra Ćorluka

HNK Zagreb

Orchestra

Orkestar Opere Hrvatskoga Narodnog Kazalista u Zagrebu

Others

Choir HNK Zagreb

Zagreb

Croatia

Carmen Bizet

Public

Approved

Bizet's eternally current opera about love and freedom is very well known to those who are not ordinary opera audiences, mostly because of the passionate love story, brilliantly written arias and scenes that subtly quote Spanish folklore. The work is based on the eponymous, not particularly accepted, story by Prosper Mérimée based on a true dramatic and romantic story with a touch of cruel realism, about the love triangle of Gypsy Carmen, soldier Don Jose and bullfighter Escamillo. Characters depicting the mysterious depths of the human psyche, the eros as the old ones felt; seductive, playful, caustic, demonic, unbridled (F. Nietzsche) and the fatal passion between them start the dramatic action, leading it to the inevitable tragic end. Although the opera at its premiere on March 3, 1875 in Paris experienced a fiasco, further Bizet's Carmen, for which the libretto was written by H. Meilhac and L. Halévy, was a dizzying rise of the work to world fame, to be considered by almost everyone today to be the pinnacle of operatic creativity. The Latin translation of the name of the title heroine means a poem, or an enchanted poem or prophetic expression that erases the boundaries between worlds; a song between text and music, an enchanted poem between reality and fantasy, a prophecy of the boundary of epochs. Having found its way to the widest layers of the audience, opera has become an absolute bestseller and an indispensable part of the repertoire of every opera house. In the world, Carmen has been performed more and more often than all other opera titles, and individual arias such as habanera, seguidille or toreador's arias can be compared to the greatest musical hits of our time. And numerous adaptations, adaptations and many different works of art initiated by that opera, 

MARCELLO MOTTADELLI immediately after graduating in organ and composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan began his professional career in 1999 as chief conductor of the Bern Symphony Orchestra and the Stadtheatre. Since 2001, he has been a regular conductor of American opera houses and throughout Europe. From the beginning of the 2018/19 season. he is the director of the Opera of the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb.

JOSIP ŠEGO (1974), graduated in conducting from the Zagreb Academy of Music and immediately after graduating from the Zagreb Opera he was hired as an accompanist, and in 2005 he received the status of conductor. Equal to many performances of the opera and ballet repertoire of the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb.

After a successful violin career, ARNAUD BERNARD has devoted himself more and more to opera directing since 1986, staging about 60 opera titles around the world. and Troubadour 2019.

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Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble