Carmen: Antonio Gades

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Mythic production premiered in 1983, Carmen as revisited by Antonio Gades, master of the flamenco, continues to live and transport the public with its razor‐sharp rigour, its undercurrent of anxiety and its tragic tension.

This Carmen, taking place in a room where dancers rehearse a ballet based on this tragedy, mixes the music of Bizet with flamenco guitar and song in a finely crafted choreography, sculpted to the most intimate depths of each character, but with a total absence of sentimentalism or melodrama.

Following Gades’ death in 2004, to preserve his work, his former dancers decided to re‐establish the company he dissolved four years earlier. Under the direction of Stella Arauzo, member of the original company since 1980, and with a dance troupe that has since added several new members, it perpetuates the spirit and force of this dance and the art of Gades, restoring it to our burning memory with the same panache and the same astonishment as it did 30 years prior. The masterpieces, it is true, never grow old.

Carmen, based on the libretto by Prosper Mérimée
Music Antonio Gades | Solera Freire | Georges Bizet Carmen | Maestro Penella El gato Montes | José Ortega Heredia
Text Federico García Lorca Verde que te quiero Verde | Prosper Mérimée
Artistic Direction Stella Arauzo
Staging Antonio Saura
Scenario | Choreography | Direction Antonio Gades | Carlos Saura

Carmen María José López
Don José Ángel Gil
Carmen's Husband Miguel Angel Rojas

Premiered at the Théâtre de Paris on 17 May 1983
With the Patronage of Art & Fact Architecture