Organization

Bass-baritone (+3)

Byung Gil Kim

Escamillo

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Ben Glassberg

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

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Aigul Akhmetshina

Carmen

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Arianna Manganello

Mercedes

Soprano (+2)

Maria Motolygina

Michaela

Baritone (+2)

Dean Murphy

Morales

Christian Simmons

Zuniga

Tenor (+3)

Kieran Carrel

Remendado

Baritone (+4)

Philipp Jekal

Dancaire

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Chorus

Children's Chorus of the German Opera of Berlin

Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Meechot Marrero

Frasquita

Tenor (+5)

David Butt Philip

Don José

Tenor (+1)

Matthew Newlin

Soprano (+1)

Elisa Verzier

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sense: Bizet's opera shows a world in which love as an interpersonal feeling no longer has any place and has long since been replaced by sex and violence.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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