Carmen

Georges Bizet

From Sunday 25 November 2018

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Sunday 25 November 2018 20:00 Teatro del Maggio Buy 






Carmen is an Opéra-Comique in four scenes by Georges Bizet, to the libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novel of the same name by Prosper Mérimée. Bizet participated in the libretto, and also wrote the words to the famous habanera L’amour est un oiseau rebelle. Initially, the opera was not particularly well received, so much so that Bizet, who died three months after the premiere, did not witness its success. “This music is fiendish, refined, fatalistic: despite all this it continues to be popular - it has the elegance of a race, not an individual. [...] Has the stage ever seen more painful tragic accents than these? And in the way they develop! [...] Without the falsity of grand style! - and the music treats the listener as intelligent, almost as if he was a musician [...]. Finally, love translated back into nature! [...] Love as fatum, fatality, cynical, innocent, cruel... and thus nature!” (Friederich Nietzsche)




Carmen
Opéra-comique in four acts
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy from Carmen by Prosper Mérimée
Music by Georges Bizet
Première: March 3, 1875 at Opéra-Comique in Paris

Artists
Conductor
Matteo Beltrami

Director
Leo Muscato

Sets
Andrea Belli

Costumes
Margherita Baldoni

Light designer
Alessandro Verazzi

Carmen
Marina Comparato

Don José
Roberto Di Biasio

Escamillo
Leon Kim

Micaela
Laura Giordano

Frasquita
Eleonora Bellocci

Mercedes
Giada Frasconi

Dancairo
Dario Shikhmiri

Remendado
Manuel Amati

Zuniga
Adriano Gramigni

Morales
Patrizio La Placa

OrchestraChorus and Children choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Chrous and Children Chorus Master Lorenzo Fratini
Duration
Atto I:1 ora e 35 minuti | Intervallo:30 minuti | Atto II:1h e 15 minuti | Durata Complessiva: 3 ore e 20 minuti circa
Prices
Starting from 5€
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