Carmen
Sat, 17. June 2023, 19:30
Georges Bizet (1838 – 1875)
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Bizet described his opera as an "operetta with a bad ending" - and rightly so, because what is unique about CARMEN is the mixture of romantic opera, realistic drama and Offenbach operetta. Ole Anders Tandberg's production tells the story in powerful images that constantly alternate between shock, grotesqueness and great emotion ... Conductor: Yi-Chen Lin / Dominic Limburg; Director: Ole Anders Tandberg; With Anna Goryachova / Irene Roberts, Maria Motolygina / Valeriia Savinskaia, Tomislav Muzek / Attilio Glaser / Matthew Newlin, Samuel Dale Johnson / Joel Allison a. o.
Georges Bizet’s CARMEN was a deliberate and direct affront to the Romantic operatic tradition. The fiercely independent spirit of the eponymous heroine was the polar opposite of the passive suffering of the female characters that had populated the opera stage up to that point. Yet CARMEN is anti-Romantic in a larger sense: Bizet’s opera presents a world in which love as a feeling between two people is out of place and has long been supplanted by sex and violence. Carmen and Escamillo, the torero, are emblematic of this new society, where survival of the fittest is the only law that counts, a world where Don José, with his bourgeois ideal of love, remains an oddity, doomed to fail. With his clear-eyed view of the bleakness of the human condition Bizet lines up with novelist Emile Zola. In a rejection of the stereotypical image peddled by many productions, Bizet’s Spain casts the ugliness of poverty in a true light.
Werkinfo:
Opéra comique in four acts by Georges BizetLibretto by Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella by Prosper MériméeFirst performed on 3rd March 1875, in ParisPremiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 20th January 2018
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