Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Maîtrise des Hauts-de‑Seine / Paris Opera Children’s Chorus
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“Carmen will never surrender, born free, free will she die” cries Bizet’s heroine to Don José at the end of the opera. This irrepressible freedom, coupled with a need to live ever more intensely on a knife-edge, is present in Calixto Bieito’s production as in no other. Of Mérimée’s character, Bieito’s Carmen retains her thoroughly Iberian contours and the burning temperament of a woman who lives by small-time trafficking. However, the rebel bird is essentially a creature of our own times. A brazen and indomitable seductress and a product of social and masculine brutality, she lives life in the fast lane, avid for existence.
Opera in four acts (1875)
Music / Georges Bizet
Libretto / Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy
After / Prosper Mérimée
Conductor / Sir Mark Elder
Director / Calixto Bieito
Sets / Alfons Flores
Costumes / Mercè Paloma
Lighting design / Alberto Rodríguez Vega
Chorus master / José Luis Basso
Assistant chorus master / Alessandro Di Stefano
Carmen / Elīna Garanča
Don José / Roberto Alagna
Micaëla / Maria Agresta
Escamillo / Ildar Abdrazakov
Frasquita / Vannina Santoni
Mercédès / Antoinette Dennefeld
Le Dancaïre / Boris Grappe
Le Remendado / François Rougier
Zuniga / François Lis
Moralès / Jean-Luc Ballestra
Lillas Pastia / Alain Azérot
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