Organization

Conductor

Artem Abashev

Stage director

Georgy Isaakyan

Set designer

Vyacheslav Okunev

Lighting designer

Sergei Martynov

Singer

Baritone

Alexey Gerasimov

Morales

Soprano

Zarina Abaeva

Michaela

Mezzo-soprano

Larissa Kell

Carmen

Nadezhda Babintseva

Eduard Morozov

Bass

Alexander Pogudin

Zuniga

Oleg Ivanov

Vladimir Taisaev

Escamillo

Elena Tokareva

Mercedes

Nadezhda Pavlova

Frasquita

Alexey Svetov

Dancaire

Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre

French

Perm

Russia

Main stage

Carmen Bizet

Public

Russian

Approved

The opera was written in 1874. This version was first performed in Perm in 2005. 

At the première of the original version of Carmen at the Opéra Comique in Paris, the respectable bourgeois audience was shocked by the story of the murder of the debauched gypsy girl by a jealous, foul-mouthed soldier. Before that time, such a plot could never have been shown on the operatic stage. Ten years later, Bizet’s Carmen returned to the stage as an acknowledged masterpiece. This was down to Ernest Guiraud, in whose version the spicy dialogues were replaced by high-flown recitatives, and there was nothing to prevent the audience from enjoying the music. In Georgy Isaakyan's interpretation, Bizet’s masterpiece again has the ability to shock the audience with its animal passions.

English

Carmen by Bizet, From (2013/2013), Directed by Georgy Isaakyan,, Conductor Artem Abashev, Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre, Perm, Russia

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Cast

Crew

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