Name: Carmen
Start: 1996-10-31T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1997-03-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Angela Gheorghiu

Michaela

Ainhoa Arteta

Hei-Kyung Hong

Mezzo-soprano

Wendy White

Carmen

Waltraud Meier

Denyce Graves

Tenor

John Horton Murray

Don José

Luis Lima

Vinson Cole

Plácido Domingo

Neil Rosenshein

Baritone

Greer Grimsley

Escamillo

Jeffrey Wells

Gino Quilico

Sergei Leiferkus

Mary Dunleavy

Frasquita

Emily Pulley

Kristine Jepson

Mercedes

Reveka Mavrovitis

Tony Stevenson

Remendado

Kim Josephson

Dancaire

Stephen Powell

Christopher Schaldenbrand

Morales

Nathan Gunn

Kamel Boutros

Bass

Zuniga

James Courtney

Conductor

Yves Abel

James Levine

Stage director

Franco Zeffirelli

The Metropolitan Opera

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

The great singing actress Waltraud Meier stars as Carmen in Franco Zeffirelli’s sumptuous production of Bizet’s colorful opera. A beautiful gypsy driven by passion and love of freedom, she draws the soldier Don José, portrayed by the legendary Plácido Domingo, into a web of love and jealousy that will seal her fate. Angela Gheorghiu is Micaëla, the innocent girl Don José left behind, and Sergei Leiferkus sings the bullfighter Escamillo. James Levine leads the Met orchestra and chorus.

Carmen Bizet

Public

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading