Name: Carmen
Start: 2006-12-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2007-02-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

Organization

Cantante

Mezzosoprano

Anna Caterina Antonacci

Carmen

Marina Domashenko

Tenore

Jonas Kaufmann

Don José

Marco Berti

Baritono

Ildebrando D'Arcangelo

Escamillo

Laurent Naouri

Soprano

Norah Amsellem

Micaëla

Liping Zhang

Basso

Matthew Rose

Zuniga

Roderick Earle

Jacques Imbrailo

Moralès

Grant Doyle

Elena Xanthoudakis

Frasquita

Ana James

Viktoria Vizin

Mercédès

Liora Grodnikaite

Jean-Sébastien Bou

Dancairo

Adrian Clarke

Jean-Paul Fouchécourt

Remendado

Harry Nicoll

Direzione d'orchestra

Antonio Pappano

David Syrus

Philippe Auguin

Regia

Francesca Zambello

Scenografia

Tanya McCallin

Costumi

Luci

Paule Constable

Coreografia

Arthur Pita

Direzione del coro

Renato Balsadonna

Royal Opera House

francese

Londra

Regno Unito

Internationally recognised director Francesca Zambello joins forces with Antonio Pappano, who conducts the ‘utterly compelling’ Anna Caterina Antonacci as Carmen and Jonas Kaufmann as Don José.

For this, his 17th and last opera, Georges Bizet took inspiration from the popular novella by Prosper Mérimée, which had enticed French readers with exotic tales of Spain. Its heady combination of passion, sensuality and violence initially proved too much for the stage and the opera was a critical failure on its premiere in 1875. Bizet died shortly after, and never learned of the spectacular success Carmen would achieve. Popular around the world, the opera has been performed more than five hundred times at Covent Garden alone.

The opera contains many much-loved numbers, such as Carmen’s seductive Habanera and Escamillo’s rousing Toreador Song, in which he celebrates the thrill of the bullfight. In Francesca Zambello’s 2006 production for The Royal Opera, richly coloured designs by Tanya McCallin capture the sultry heat of the Spanish sun, while ranks of soldiers, crowds of peasants, gypsies and bullfighters bring 19th-century Seville to life.

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