Name: Carmen
Start: 2023-08-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga

Organization

OperaFest Lisboa

Costume designer

Rita Moniz Pereira

Set designer

Pedro Azevedo

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Cátia Moreso

Carmen

Tenor

Rodrigo Porras Garulo

Don José

Leonel Pinheiro

Soprano

Alexandra Bernardo

Michaela

Conductor

Jan Wierzba

Stage director

Tonan Quito

Lighting designer

Pedro Santos

Baritone

Christian Luján

Escamillo

Filipa Portela

Frasquita

Ana Rita Coelho

Mercedes

Bass

Ricardo Rebelo da Silva

Zuniga

Leandro Moreso

Morales

Tiago Amado Gomes

Dancaire

João Barbas

Remendado

Orchestra

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Others

Coro Operafest Lisboa

Italian

Lisbon

Portugal

Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga

Carmen Bizet

Public

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Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Countertenor

Bass-baritone

Contralto

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

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rúbrica Super Ópera, programa televisivo "Super Diva ópera para todos", 3ª temporada escrita, realizada e apresentada por Catarina Molder, com produção da óp...

The opera Carmen, by George Bizet, based on Prosper Mérimé’s novel of the same name, was premiered in 1875 at the Opéra-Comique and was a resounding flop. An opera whose main character is a gypsy who prizes her freedom above all else and refuses to bend to male power, was considered an affront to bourgeois society of the time.
 
Bizet died three moths later at the age of 37, believing he had failed with what he rightly considered to be his masterpiece. The year immediately after, the opera’s success spread to Europe’s major theatres and, since then, Carmen has been the second most performed opera ever. 
 
For this fearless woman "love is like a wild bird that on one can trap". Don Jose brigadier falls into the beautiful gipsy’s web and soon his life falls from heaven to hell, since he deserts from the army to join Carmen smugglers’ band, ultimately murdering her in front of the arena where she was about to meet her new lover, the toreador Escamiglio.
 
A masterpiece from the start to the end filled with musical hits, clearly appealing to women emancipation, presented in a new version directed by actor and stage director Tónan Quito marking his opera debut. Starring German Mezzo in international rise, of warm sensual timbre, Kristine Stanek, as D. José fiery Mexican tenor Rodrigo Porras Garulo and powerful Columbian Baritone Christian Luján as Escamiglio.

A ópera Cármen de George Bizet a partir da novela homónima de Prosper Mérimé, estreou em 1875 na ópera comique de Paris e foi um profundo fracasso. Apresentar como personagem central de uma ópera uma cigana, que presa a sua liberdade acima de tudo e nunca se subjuga ao poder masculino,  foi uma  afronta total à sociedade burguesa da época.
 
Bizet morre três meses depois aos 37 anos, a achar que tinha falhado, no que considerava e com toda a razão, ter sido a sua obra prima. Logo no ano seguinte, o sucesso da ópera contagia todos os grandes teatros da Europa e desde então, é a segunda ópera mais vista de sempre.
 
Para esta mulher destemida o amor é como um "pássaro selvagem que não se pode aprisionar". O brigadeiro Don José cai na teia da bela Carmen e rapidamente a sua vida vai do céu - com a sua paixão finalmente correspondida,  ao inferno, já que Don José deserta do exército para a seguir, juntando-se ao seu bando de contrabandistas para finalmente a matar à porta da arena, onde esta se ia encontrar com o seu novo amante, o toureiro Escamiglio.
 
Nesta obra prima replecta de hits musicais do início ao fim e um declarado apelo à emancipação feminina, propõe-se uma nova leitura, na estreia em encenação de ópera, do actor e encenador Tónan Quito. Protagonizada pela meio-soprano alemã em ascensão internacional, Kristina Stanek de voz quente e sensual, tendo com Don José o tenor mexicano Rodrigo Porras Garulo e como Escamiglio, o barítono columbinano Christian Luján, será dirigida pelo maestro luso-polaco Jan Wierzba.

português

Carmen by Bizet, Fri 18 Aug 2023, From (2023/2023), Directed by Tonan Quito,, Conductor Jan Wierzba, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal

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