The smugglers Remendado and Dancaïro enter. He is immediately attracted to Carmen, but she refuses his advances. The famous bullfighter Escamillo arrives. José is arrested.Īt the end of a dance, Zuniga tells Carmen that José has been released after a month in prison. Once they are alone, Carmen convinces José to help her escape. Women burst loudly into the square, and Carmen is accused of wounding her co-worker with a knife.
Suddenly, sounds of a fight are heard in the factory. Micaëla returns with a letter from Don José's mother. Carmen throws a flower at him and returns to the factory. Among them is Carmen, who entrances all - except Don José. The midday bell rings, and the women who have been working in the factory come outside for their break. Lieutenant Zuniga and Don José arrive for the changing of the guard. She is told that José will arrive with the changing of the guard. Micaëla appears, looking for her fiancé, Corporal Don José. Moralès and his soldiers pass their time reading and playing dice. Petr Popelka, chief conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava, took over the musical production.Librettist: Henri Meilhac, Ludovic HalévyĬompany: Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Performance Dates 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. The National Theatre staged it on 3 January 1884, shortly after its opening, as the very first foreign opera. 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.Ĭarmen was first presented in Prague in 1880, at the Estates Theatre. Yet Carmen soon triumphed in other European cities.īizet’s Carmen is a staple of the repertoire of the majority of opera houses worldwide. 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. National Theatre Chorus National Theatre Orchestra National Theatre Opera Ballet Prague Philharmonic Children’s ChoirĬarmen is actually one of the first verismo operas that preceded the “manifesto” of the Italian artistic movement.
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