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Carmen

National Theatre (Národní divadlo)Ostrovní 1, Praha 1, Prague, Central Bohemian Region, 11000, Czech Republic
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Sunday 14 September 202519:00
Wednesday 17 September 202519:00
Wednesday 22 October 202519:00
Friday 14 November 202519:00
Tuesday 16 December 202519:00
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Programme
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875)CarmenLibretto by Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy
Performers
Prague National Theatre Opera
Zbyněk MüllerConductor
Grischa AsagaroffDirector
Luigi PeregoSet Designer, Costume Designer
Daniel TesařLighting Designer
Prague National Theatre Orchestra
Prague National Theatre Chorus
Petros GalliasChoreography
Pavel VaněkChoirmaster / chorus director
Prague National Theatre Opera Ballet
Prague Philharmonic Children's Choir
Ramona ZahariaMezzo-sopranoCarmen
Ester PavlůMezzo-sopranoCarmen
Leonardo CaimiTenorDon José
Carlos CardosoTenorDon José
Michal LehotskýTenorDon José
Svatopluk SemBaritoneEscamillo
Csaba KotlárBaritoneEscamillo
Kateřina KněžíkováSopranoMicaëla
Alžběta PoláčkováSopranoMicaëla
Jana SiberaSopranoMicaëla
Miloš HorákBass-baritoneZuniga
Jaroslav PatočkaBassZuniga
Lukáš BařákBass-baritoneMoralès
Daniel KfelířBaritoneMoralès
Doubravka NovotnáSopranoFrasquita
Yukiko KinjoSopranoFrasquita
Stanislava JirkůMezzo-sopranoMercédès
Sylva ČmugrováSopranoMercédès
Josef MoravecTenorLe Dancaïre
Tadeáš HozaBaritoneLe Dancaïre
Jaroslav BřezinaTenorLe Dancaïre
Tomáš KořínekTenorLe Remendado
Martin ŠrejmaTenorLe Remendado

Bizet’s Carmen is a staple of the repertoire of the majority of opera houses worldwide. The opera is extremely popular owing to the music, abounding in torrential rhythms, engrossing melodies and bewitching songs of the beautiful Gypsy, as well as the overwhelming power of the passions depicted in the story.

Carmen is actually one of the first verismo operas that preceded the “manifesto” of the Italian artistic movement. Its style, and the death of the title heroine, which were at variance with the established opéra comique conventions, seem to have been the reason why the work did not give rise to much public enthusiasm at and in the wake of the world premiere in Paris in 1875. Yet Carmen soon triumphed in other European cities.

Bizet’s Carmen is a staple of the repertoire of the majority of opera houses worldwide. It is extremely popular owing to the music, abounding in torrential rhythms, engrossing melodies and bewitching songs of the beautiful Gypsy, as well as to the overwhelming power of the passions depicted in the story.

Carmen was first presented in Prague in 1880, at the Estates Theatre. The National Theatre staged it on 3 January 1884, shortly after its opening, as the very first foreign opera. In our new production, the story of Don José, a soldier who falls madly in love with the Gypsy Carmen, is retold by the German director Grischa Asagaroff, who has successfully collaborated with many of the world's leading opera houses in Vienna, Zurich, Munich, Dresden, Houston and elsewhere.

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