Opera
Carmen
Georges Bizet
Carmen: or how a groundbreakingly creative opéra comique from 1875 has today become a veritable legend, feeding the collective psyche with images, preconceived ideas, and distinctive melodies. Here, you can forget the Gypsy girl, the tobacco factory, Seville and its street festivals! For his third production at La Monnaie, Dmitri Tcherniakov presents a radical show. With a realistic setting, it cuts to the core of the legend and thus of the projections and fantasies surrounding our heroine. At the centre of the drama, some emotionally disillusioned modern-day men and women prepare to ‘perform’ Carmen as a therapeutic exercise. The simple role play rapidly transforms into an uncontrollable mechanism whereby a man, consumed by passion, becomes unable to separate himself from his character. Emmanuel Villaume and José Miguel Pérez-Sierra will alternately conduct this intensely passionate score, in which every note serves to enhance the drama.
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Dates
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Sun 23 Jan 2022
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15:00
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Tue 25 Jan 2022
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19:30
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Thu 27 Jan 2022
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19:30
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Sun 30 Jan 2022
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15:00
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Tue 01 Feb 2022
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19:30
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Thu 03 Feb 2022
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19:30
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Sat 05 Feb 2022
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19:30
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Sun 06 Feb 2022
Time
15:00
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Tue 08 Feb 2022
Time
19:30
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Thu 10 Feb 2022
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19:30
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Fri 11 Feb 2022
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19:30
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Sun 13 Feb 2022
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15:00
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Cast
Opéra-comique en quatre actes
Premiere
Opéra Comique
Paris, 3.3.1875
Libretto by Henry Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy,
after the novella by Prosper Mérimée
Dialogues adapted by Dmitri Tcherniakov
ConductorEMMANUEL VILLAUME / JOSÉ MIGUEL PÉREZ-SIERRA (01, 05, 08, 10, 11 & 13.02)
ChorusmasterJOHANNES KNECHT, JORI KLOMP
Director, set design & costume designDMITRI TCHERNIAKOV
CostumesELENA ZAITSEVA
LightingGLEB FILSHTINSKY
CarmenSTÉPHANIE D’OUSTRAC / ÈVE-MAUD HUBEAUX (01, 03, 05, 08, 10, 11 & 13.02)
Don JoséMICHAEL FABIANO / ANDREA CARÈ (01, 05, 08, & 11.02)
MicaëlaELSA DREISIG / ANNE-CATHERINE GILLET (01, 03, 05, 08, 10, 11 & 13.02)
EscamilloJEAN-SÉBASTIEN BOU
ZunigaJEAN-FERNAND SETTI
MoralèsPIERRE DOYEN
FrasquitaLOUISE FOOR (MM Laureate)
MercédèsCLAIRE PÉRON
Le DancaïreGUILLAUME ANDRIEUX
Le RemendadoENGUERRAND DE HYS
L’AdministrateurPIERRE GRAMMONT
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Children's and Youth Choir of La Monnaie, led by Benoît Giaux
ProductionFESTIVAL D’AIX-EN-PROVENCE (2017)
Co-productionLA MONNAIE / DE MUNT
LES THÉÂTRES DE LA VILLE DE LUXEMBOURG
PHILADELPHIA OPERA
In co-production with Shelter Prod and Prospero MM Productions, with the support of Taxshelter.be and ING
With the support of the Belgian Federal Government's Tax Shelter
