Carmen

"Carmen is a person who loves life and lives it without limits. She finds joy in discovering the limits of the people around her and her own limits. It all comes from inside her, she doesn't need to build a separate personality. He doesn't even see himself from the outside. He is an instinctive human being in all his simplicity and complexity. He is at once intuitive, rude, passionate, melancholic and sensitive," says the Catalan director Calixto Bieito, the 'Tarantino of opera directing'. In his performances, he presents the reality of the stories with a fleshly sharpness and therefore a shocking provocation. The French opera Carmen by Georges Bizet, which also stirs up frenzied passions and emotions, is a perfect match for this directorial style. The director sets the opera in 19th century Seville in post-Franco Spain, where he depicts a wild and cruel world with a high degree of realism - far from the folkloric cliché of flamenco. With his raw naturalism, Bieito brings the opera even closer to the Prosper Mérimée novel on which it is based.

The production has toured the world and been performed in many places. After Madrid, London, Oslo, San Francisco, Vienna, Barcelona, Venice, Paris, Lisbon, Palermo and Boston, it has finally been performed at OPERA since 2021.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Composer.

Lyrics based on the novel of the same name by Prosper Mérimée: Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévi

Directed by Calixto Bieito

Set designer: Flores Tarres Ildefonso

Costume designer: Mercé Paloma

Director's collaborator: Lucía Fernández Astigarraga

Hungarian subtitles by Judit Kenesey

English subtitles by Arthur Roger Crane

Director of the children's choir: Nikolett Hajzer

Choir director: Gábor Csiki