Name: Carmen
Start: 2024-02-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-02-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Stavros Niarchos Hall

Organization

Admin

Greek National Opera

Choreographer

Johan Inger

Assistant choreographer, creation

Urtzi Aranburu

Dramaturge

Gregor Acuña-Pohl

Reorchestration of the music by Bizet

Álvaro Domínguez Vázquez

Music composition

Marc Álvarez

Conductor

Ektoras Tartanis

Set designer

Curt Allen Wilmer

Leticia Gañán

Costume designer

David Delfín

Costume revival

Maria Luisa Ramos Corrales

Lighting designer

Tom Visser

Singer

Elena Kekkou

Carmen

Eleftheria Stamou

Danilo Zeka

Don José

Vangelis Bikos

Yannis Mitrakis

Torero

Yannis Gantsios

Zuniga

Alicia Townsend

Stelios Katopodis

Erez

Kaito Takahashi

Αntonio

Daniele Pecorari

Mattia

Yorgos Hatzopoulos

Jacobo

Stefano Pietragalla

Αleix

Manex Alberdi

Toby

Christina Makridou

Allie

Anna Frangou

Marta Rivero de Miranda

Aida

Areti Noti

Zoi Schoinoplokaki

Sara

Marita Nikolitsa

Μanuela

Magda Koukou-Ferra

Kayoko

Ariadni Filippaki

Agnes

Shadows

Orchestra

GNO Orchestra

Athens

Greece

SNFCC

Carmen: Johan Inger / Rodion Shchedrin – Georges Bizet: Carmen Shchedrin | Bizet

Public

Matias Vergara Moyano

Approved

Stavros Niarchos Hall

This production is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to enhance the GNO’s artistic outreach.

The Greek National Opera Ballet presents a new production of the ballet Carmen, choreographed by the great Swedish choreographer Johan Inger and first presented by the Compañía Nacional de Danza, Madrid in 2015.

Acclaimed dancer and choreographer Johan Inger –who has carved himself a long and exceptionally successful career, both at Nederlands Dans Theater and at other major European dance companies– created the ballet Carmen for the Compañía Nacional de Danza, where it proved highly popular. Inger took on the challenge and the opportunity of creating a new choreography for Bizet’s heroine –considered a symbol of love and freedom– and his prime concern was to offer up a new take on this famous story. To this end, he decided to focus on the issue of violence, approaching it through the eyes of a child. From this viewpoint, Inger invites audiences to watch the action through a filter of innocence.

The choreographer notes: “My Carmen is not only based on the female protagonist of the story; like Mérimée’s original, my ballet also focuses on Don José’s love sickness – on a man who, unable to accept the freedom of his beloved, sets forth on a path down to hell, driven by his primal instincts: passion and revenge. There is an element of mystery in this character: it could be a child, it could be Don José. It could even be us, with our primeval goodness lacerated by the experience of violence which, though short-lived, may have negatively influenced our lives and our ability to relate to others forever.”

In this choreography by Inger, the ballet version of the Carmen story by Rodion Shchedrin – Georges Bizet enters into dialogue with music written by Marc Álvarez. The production also features dramaturgy by Gregor Acuña-Pohl, sets by Curt Allen Wilmer and Leticia Gañán, costumes by David Delfín, and lighting by Tom Visser.

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