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Carmen

Estonian National Opera HouseTallinn, Harju, Estonia
Fechas/horas en zona horaria de Tallinn
sábado 06 septiembre 202519:00
viernes 07 noviembre 202519:00
sábado 22 noviembre 202519:00
Programa
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875)CarmenLibreto de Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy
Intérpretes
Estonian National Opera
Arvo VolmerDirección
Henri Christofer AavikDirección
Kaspar MändDirección
Pierre-Emmanuel RousseauDirección de escena, Diseño de escena, Diseño de vestuario
Gilles GentnerDiseño de iluminación
Estonian National Opera Orchestra
Estonian National Opera Choir
Heli JürgensonDirección de coro
Estonian National Opera Boys' Choir
Külli KiivetDirección de coro
Marie GautrotMezzosopranoCarmen
Helen LokutaMezzosopranoCarmen
Aule UrbMezzosopranoCarmen
Mario RojasTenorDon José
Thomas BirchTenorDon José
Perrine MadoeufSopranoMicaëla
Elena BrazhnykSopranoMicaëla
Kadri KõrvekSopranoMicaëla
Raiko RaalikBajoEscamillo
Gagik VardanyanBajoEscamillo
Priit VolmerBajoZuniga
Rauno ElpBarítonoZuniga
Tamar NugisBarítonoMoralès
René SoomBarítonoMoralès
Janne ŠevtšenkoSopranoMercédès
Karis TrassMezzosopranoMercédès
Merit KraavSopranoMercédès
Kristel PärtnaSopranoFrasquita
Kadri NirgiSopranoFrasquita
Maria LeppojaSopranoFrasquita
Reigo TammTenorLe Dancaïre
Mehis TiitsTenorLe Dancaïre
Mart MadisteTenorLe Remendado
Heldur Harry PõldaTenorLe Remendado

When “Carmen” was first staged in France (1875), it received negative feedback: its plot was considered immoral and characters vulgar. Bizet shocked the audience by portraying ordinary people on stage – villagers, factory workers, gypsies, smugglers, and by showing the death of the main character on stage. Pyotr Tchaikovsky understood the greatness of this piece and predicted a brilliant future for the opera: “Ten years from now it will be the most popular opera in the world”. And he was right, because “Carmen” shortly became one of the most popular operas with the Toreador’s song and the main character’s Habanera becoming the symbols of opera music for many generations.

Bizet’s passionate music is brought to life on stage by the stage director Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau: “Carmen is a woman haunted by fate and destiny that run between men and superstitions, religion and paganism. To communicate this, I want to return to the sources of the Carmen “myth”: rediscover the harsh and uncompromising spirit of Mérimée’s heroine. In a cigar factory, a no man’s land and an arena, Carmen plays, dances, summons the spirits, and trembles. From the start, she must be aware of her imminent and inevitable death, like an animal that senses danger and the hunter. Carmen is also a figure of anarchy, of the refusal of the established order, of total and deadly freedom, who, through her attitude and her behaviour, challenges bourgeois morality. This figure of a woman like a black sun will find in Don José the instrument of her destiny. Don José is already a murderer; he joined the army to flee from the consequences of his actions and his village. He is broken, dangerous and very unstable. The witch in Carmen will sense that at an instant. She will use José, drive him crazy, and lead him to kill her, because that is his destiny. This is what I want to show in my production of “Carmen”, in the midst of the sand of the bull fighting arena, Madonnas, bandits, sweat, dances, chairs, and bullfighting”.

Performed in French with subtitles in Estonian and English

Recommended age 12+

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