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Opéra Nice Côte d'Azur

Conductor

Lionel Bringuier

Stage director

Stage director (+3)

Daniel Benoin

Lighting designer

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Jean-Pierre Laporte

Costume designer

Nathalie Bérard-Benoin

Video

Paulo Correia

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Ramona Zaharia

Carmen

Tenor (+1)

Jean-François Borras

Don José

Bass-baritone (+3)

Jean-Fernand Setti

Escamillo

Soprano

Perrine Madoeuf

Michaela

Lamia Beuque

Mercedes

Soprano (+1)

Charlotte Bonnet

Frasquita

Baritone (+5)

Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin

Dancaire

Tenor (+2)

Néstor Galván

Remendado

Guilhem Worms

Zuniga

Baritone (+6)

Richard Rittelmann

Morales

Orchestra

Nice Philharmonic Orchestra

Chorus

Nice Opera Choir

Opera Nice Côte d'Azur

Don José falls under Carmen's spell when he is supposed to take her to a cell after a violent argument with her fellow cigar workers. From then on, the brigadier can no longer live without his beautiful gypsy, who, for her part, abandons him for a dashing bullfighter...

Carmen's plot is effective, its situations and character psychology accurate, its music bewitching, poetic, fiery and exotic all at once. Rarely has an opera succeeded in giving such a feeling of obviousness and naturalness, in a discreet but very real modernity. And posterity has made no mistake: Bizet's last masterpiece is now one of the most frequently performed operas in the world.

Lionel Bringuier and Daniel Benoin take on this immense monument of the repertoire. With Ramona Zaharia, one of the greatest Carmens of her generation, and Jean-François Borras and Jean-Fernand Setti in the roles of the two rival lovers, the opera season at the Opéra de Nice closes with a veritable firework display.

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