Georges Bizet’s fascinating masterpiece Carmen presents at the Teatro Real in Damiano Michieletto’s captivating production, which sheds new light on lust, violence and passion. Maestra Eun Sun Kim conducts a stellar cast led by the magnetic mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmethsina as Carmen, accompanied by the acclaimed Charles Castronovo as Don José, Adriana González as Micaëla, and Lucas Meachem as Escamillo.
Based on Prosper Mérimée’s famous novella, this intense drama set in Seville follows Carmen, a free-spirited gypsy with whom Don José, a corporal in the guard, falls madly in love. Blinded by jealousy and despair over the indomitable heroine, the soldier will unleash tragedy in an opera marked by great musical highlights such as the ‘Habanera’ and the ‘Seguidilla’.
Opéra comique in four acts
Music: Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Libretto: Henri Meilhac y Ludovic Halévy, after Prosper Mérimée’s novel Carmen (1845)
Producers: Teatro Real, in co-production with Royal Ballet and Opera (London) and Teatro alla Scala (Milan)
Artistic team
Conductor | Eun Sun Kim
Stage director | Damiano Micheletto
Set design | Paolo Fantin
Costume design | Carla Teti
Lighting design | Alessandro Carletti
Chorus director | José Luis Basso
Children chorus director | Ana González
Cast
Carmen | Aigul Akhmetshina
Don José | Charles Castronovo
Escamillo | Lucas Meachem
Micaëla | Adriana González
Zuniga | David Lagares
Moralès | Toni Marsol
Frasquita | Natalia Labourdette
Mercédès | Marie-Claude Chappuis
Le Dancaïre | Lluís Calvet
Le Remendado | Mikeldi Atxalandabaso
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra
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