Name: Carmen
Start: 2024-07-17
End: 2024-07-17
Location: Teatro Colón

Organization

Admin

Teatro Colón

Conductor

Kakhi Solomnishvili

Stage director

Calixto Bieito

Set designer

Alfons Flores

Chorus master

Miguel Martínez

César Bustamante

Orchestra

Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón

Others

Coro Estable del Teatro Colón

Coro de Niños del Teatro Colón

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Francesca Di Sauro

Carmen

María Luisa Merino Ronda

Florencia Machado

Tenor

Gustavo López Manzitti

Don José

Soprano

Jaquelina Livieri

Michaela

Marina Silva

Baritone

Christian Peregrino

Escamillo

Buenos Aires

Argentina

Carmen Bizet

Public

Sharan Allad

Approved

En 1847 el coleccionista, escritor y fotógrafo William John Thoms utilizó por primera vez una palabra de su invención, “folklore”, en la que juntaba dos términos, folk (pueblo) y lore (saber). Ese saber del pueblo no era nuevo, desde ya, pero sí que se lo entendiera como tal. La novela de Merimée en la que se basó Bizet para componer Carmen fue publicada ese mismo año y la ópera fue estrenada en 1875. Es, en todo caso, una obra impregnada por lo popular, por la imagen fantasmática del Otro y, sobre todo, tanto por la fascinación como por el temor que ese pueblo y su saber (y su sexualidad) inspiraba en la Europa imperial. Ópera casi sin escenas privadas, donde todo sucede delante de la multitud, Carmen es probablemente la composición con mayor acumulación de melodías extraordinarias de toda la historia.

español

In 1847, the collector, writer and photographer William John Thoms used for the first time a word of his invention, “folklore”, in which he combined two terms, folk (people) and lore (knowledge). This knowledge of the people was not new, of course, but it was understood as such. The novel by Merimée on which Bizet based his composition Carmen was published that same year and the opera was premiered in 1875. It is, in any case, a work impregnated by the popular, by the ghostly image of the Other and, above all, both because of the fascination and the fear that this people and their knowledge (and their sexuality) inspired in imperial Europe. An opera with almost no private scenes, where everything happens in front of the crowd, Carmen is probably the composition with the greatest accumulation of extraordinary melodies in all of history.

English

Carmen by Bizet, Wed 17 Jul 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Calixto Bieito,, Conductor Kakhi Solomnishvili, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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