ABOUT THE EVENT

The Deutsche Oper Berlin presents Georges Bizet's "Carmen".

A fated, triangular relationship and probably the most famous opera of them all, Carmen flopped on March 3rd, 1875, the evening of its premiere at the Paris Opera. The brash, sensual heroine of its title stands for a set of morals alien to the bourgeois value system. Carmen's unbending urge to be free, her readiness to enter into relationships only on condition that she retain complete independence, equality, and liberty, render her an irresistible object of desire. Bizet took Prosper Mérimée's novella and succeeded in retelling the story in the form of a comic opera that gives musical expression to all aspects of the human condition - levity, tedium, silliness and hardness, seduction and playfulness, cruelty and destiny.

In French with German surtitles

First performed on 3rd March 1875, in Paris
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 11th May 1979
Revised version on 8th March 2008

Conductor, Guillermo García Calvo
Garrett Keast (06.05.12 | 12.05.12)
Stage direction, Søren Schuhmacher
Revised version, based on a production from 1979.
Stage design, Costume design, Pier Luigi Samaritani
Setting, revised version, Norbert Bellen
Choir Conductor, William Spaulding
Children’s choir, Dagmar Fiebach

Carmen , Nancy Fabiola Herrera
Anita Rachvelishvili (05.02.12 | 08.02.12 | 11.02.12)
Clémentine Margaine (06.05.12 | 12.05.12 | 15.05.12)
Frasquita, Kathryn Lewek
Hulkar Sabirova (05.02.12 | 08.02.12 | 11.02.12)
Mercédès, Jana Kurucová
Rachel Hauge (05.02.12 | 08.02.12 | 11.02.12)
Micaela, Rosa Feola
Heidi Stober (05.02.12 | 08.02.12 | 11.02.12)
Jacquelyn Wagner (06.05.12)
Sarah-Jane Brandon (12.05.12 | 15.05.12)
Don José, Gaston Rivero
Brandon Jovanovich (05.02.12 | 08.02.12 | 11.02.12)
Thiago Arancam (06.05.12 | 12.05.12 | 15.05.12)
Moralès, Alexey Bogdanchikov
Zuniga, Marko Mimica
Tobias Kehrer (05.02.12 | 08.02.12 | 11.02.12)
Escamillo, Ryan McKinny
Carsten Wittmoser (05.02.12 | 08.02.12 | 11.02.12)
N. N. (06.05.12)
Bastiaan Everink (12.05.12 | 15.05.12)
Remendado, Matthew Peña
Paul Kaufmann (05.02.12 | 08.02.12 | 11.02.12)
Dancairo, Jörg Schörner
A citizen, Marek Picz
Andres, A Ram Youn
Sung Jin Kown (08.02.12 | 06.05.12 | 15.05.12)

Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Children's Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Opera Ballet Company of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Last update 2012 Editorial Team Classictic.com

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