True spectacle as Robert Carsen's Carmen is revived at DNO

J'Nai Bridges (Carmen)

Dutch National Opera Chorus

J'Nai Bridges (Carmen) and Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Don José)

Carmen, Act 4

By Rose Dodd, 11 September 2022

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“J’Nai Bridges inhabited the role of Carmen utterly”

Reviewed at Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam on 9 September 2022

Bizet, Carmen

Dutch National Opera

Jordan de Souza, Conductor

Robert Carsen, Director, Lighting Designer

Michael Levine, Set Designer

Falk Bauer, Costume Designer

Peter van Praet, Lighting Designer

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Chorus of Dutch National Opera

J'Nai Bridges, Carmen

Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Don José

Łukasz Goliński, Escamillo

Adriana González, Micaëla

Frederik Bergman, Zuniga

Georgiy Derbas-Richter, Moralès

Inna Demenkova, Frasquita

Polly Leech, Mercédès

Laurent D'Elia, Lillas Pastia

Michael Wilmering, Le Dancaïre

Ian Castro, Le Remendado

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Rose Dodd

Amsterdam based composer Rose Dodd as well as writing for TEMPO (UK), seismograf (DK), Positionen (GER) also writes books about contemporary music, most recently on composers Christopher Fox and Louis Andriessen. Since being awarded a Mention at Prix Ars Electronica'99, her own work draws on inspiration found in the current Norwegian scene, combining ambient electronics with quiet focus on instrumental timbre.

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True spectacle as Robert Carsen's Carmen is revived at Dutch National Opera