Name: Carmen
Start: 2024-09-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-04-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Estonian National Opera

Organization

Admin

Estonian National Opera

Dirigat

Arvo Volmer

Henri Christofer Aavik

Kaspar Mänd

Regie

Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau

Bühnenbild

Kostümbild

Lichtgestaltung

Gilles Gentner

Others

Estonian National Opera Boys’ Choir

Estonian National Opera Chorus

Orchestra

Estonian National Opera Orchestra

Französisch

Carmen

Tallinn

Estland

Carmen Bizet

Public

Luis Mariano Nomdedeu

Estnisch

Englisch

Genehmigt

Bass

Instrumentalist

Klavier

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

Oboist

hornist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Harper

Saxophonist

Trombonist

Harpsichordist

Accordionist

Bassist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da Gambist

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Komposition

Libretto

Choreographie

Tänzer

Schauspiel

Chordirektion

Videogestaltung

Dramaturgie

Übersetzung

Tongestaltung

Korrepetition

Maske

Leitender Produzent

Haar

Andere

Stage Manager

Chor

Orchester

Poet

GesangslehrerIn

Lehrer

Photographer

Rundfunk

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Sopran

Singer

Mezzosopran

Tenor

Bass-Bariton

Bariton

Countertenor

Gesprochen

Kinderstimme

Leise

Alto

Continuo

When “Carmen” was first staged in France (1875), it received negative feedback: its plot was considered immoral and characters vulgar. Bizet shocked the audience by portraying ordinary people on stage – villagers, factory workers, gypsies, smugglers, and by showing the death of the main character on stage. Pyotr Tchaikovsky understood the greatness of this piece and predicted a brilliant future for the opera: “Ten years from now it will be the most popular opera in the world”. And he was right, because “Carmen” shortly became one of the most popular operas with the Toreador’s song and the main character’s Habanera becoming the symbols of opera music for many generations.

Bizet’s passionate music is brought to life on stage by the stage director Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau: “Carmen is a woman haunted by fate and destiny that run between men and superstitions, religion and paganism. To communicate this, I want to return to the sources of the Carmen “myth”: rediscover the harsh and uncompromising spirit of Mérimée’s heroine. In a cigar factory, a no man’s land and an arena, Carmen plays, dances, summons the spirits, and trembles. From the start, she must be aware of her imminent and inevitable death, like an animal that senses danger and the hunter. Carmen is also a figure of anarchy, of the refusal of the established order, of total and deadly freedom, who, through her attitude and her behaviour, challenges bourgeois morality. This figure of a woman like a black sun will find in Don José the instrument of her destiny. Don José is already a murderer; he joined the army to flee from the consequences of his actions and his village. He is broken, dangerous and very unstable. The witch in Carmen will sense that at an instant. She will use José, drive him crazy, and lead him to kill her, because that is his destiny. This is what I want to show in my production of “Carmen”, in the midst of the sand of the bull fighting arena, Madonnas, bandits, sweat, dances, chairs, and bullfighting”.

English

Carmen by Bizet, Ab (2024/2025), Unter der Regie von Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau,, Dirigat Arvo Volmer, Henri Christofer Aavik, Kaspar Mänd, Estonian National Opera, Tallinn, Estland

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