Carmen, Opera Bastille, Paris: 15 November 2022-25 February 2023

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The Opéra Bastille presents Bizet's opera of the wild and beautiful Carmen. Buy your tickets before the public through Divento.com!

Violent passion under the scorching Spanish sun: along this storyline inspired by Prosper Mérimée, Georges Bizet wrote expressive, elegant and colourful music, alternating, with a consummate skill for theatrical effect, dramatic passages and lighter ones, and composing a multitude of melodically inspired pages that will forever be engraved in our collective memory. Under the baton of Fabien Gabel, Gaëlle Arquez and Clémentine Margaine will successively play this iconic role from the French repertoire, in a production brimming with excitement and fury, directed by Calixto Bieito.

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  • Carmen

    Opera in four acts (1875)

    After Prosper Mérimée

    • Music:

      Georges Bizet - (1838 - 1875)

    • Libretto:

      Henri Meilhac

      Ludovic Halévy

    • Conductor:

      Fabien Gabel

    • Chorus master:

      Ching-Lien Wu - (nov., déc.)

      Alessandro Di Stefano - (jan., fév.)

    • Director:

      Calixto Bieito

    • Set design:

      Alfons Flores

    • Costume design:

      Mercè Paloma

    • Lighting design:

      Alberto Rodríguez Vega

    • Don José:

      • Michael Spyres

        15 Nov. > 3 Dec. 2022

      • Joseph Calleja

        28 Jan. > 25 Feb. 2023

    • Escamillo:

      • Lucas Meachem

        15 Nov. > 3 Dec. 2022

      • Étienne Dupuis

        28 Jan. > 25 Feb. 2023

    • Le Dancaïre:

      • Marc Labonnette

    • Le Remendado:

      • Loïc Félix

    • Zuniga:

      • NN

        15 Nov. > 3 Dec. 2022

      • Guilhem Worms

        28 Jan. > 25 Feb. 2023

    • Morales:

      • Tomasz Kumiega

    • Carmen:

      • Gaëlle Arquez

        15 Nov. > 3 Dec. 2022

      • Clémentine Margaine

        28 Jan. > 25 Feb. 2023

    • Micaela:

      • Golda Schultz

        15 > 27 Nov.

      • Adriana Gonzalez

        30 Nov.‑3 Dec.

      • Nicole Car

        28 Jan. > 25 Feb. 2023

    • Frasquita:

      • Andrea Cueva Molnar

    • Mercedes:

      • Adèle Charvet

Carmen, Opera Bastille, Paris: 15 November 2022-25 February 2023
Carmen, Opera Bastille, Paris: 15 November 2022-25 February 2023
Carmen, Opera Bastille, Paris: 15 November 2022-25 February 2023
Carmen, Opera Bastille, Paris: 15 November 2022-25 February 2023
Carmen, Opera Bastille, Paris: 15 November 2022-25 February 2023
Carmen, Opera Bastille, Paris: 15 November 2022-25 February 2023

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