Organization

Stage director

Stage director (+3)

Ole Anders Tandberg

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Erlend Birkeland

Costume designer

Costume designer (+3)

Maria Geber

Lighting designer

Ellen Ruge

Chorusmaster

Conductor (+2)

Jeremy Bines

Chorusmaster (+3)

Christian Lindhorst

Choreographer

Choreographer (+2)

Silke Sense

Soprano (+1)

Elisa Verzier

Frasquita

Baritone (+3)

Artur Garbas

Dancaire

Kyle Miller

Morales

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Chorus

Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Children's Chorus of the German Opera of Berlin

Bass (+1)

Tobias Kehrer

Zuniga

Bass-baritone (+2)

Joel Allison

Escamillo

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Yi-Chen Lin

Dominic Limburg

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Irene Roberts

Carmen

Karis Tucker

Mercedes

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Arianna Manganello

Soprano (+2)

Maria Motolygina

Michaela

Valeriia Savinskaia

Tenor

Tomislav Mužek

Don José

Tenor (+4)

Andrew Dickinson

Remendado

Tenor (+2)

Thomas Cilluffo

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Anna Goryachova

Attilio Glaser

Baritone (+4)

Samuel Dale Johnson

Tenor (+1)

Matthew Newlin

With his CARMEN, Georges Bizet wrote a declaration of war on romantic opera: With her indomitable will for freedom, the title heroine embodies the opposite of the passive, suffering female characters who previously dominated the opera stage. But CARMEN is anti-romantic in an even broader sense: Bizet's opera shows a world in which love as an interpersonal feeling no longer has any place and has long since been replaced by sex and violence. Carmen and the torero Escamillo are representatives of this society, in which only the right of the strongest counts. A world in which Don José, with his bourgeois ideal of love, remains a doomed alien.

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