Royal Opera House: Carmen · 2018

Royal Opera House: Carmen

Barrie Kosky · 210 min · United Kingdom

This ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky’s highly physical production, originally created for Frankfurt Opera. The Australian director is one of the world’s most sought-after opera directors, whose Royal Opera debut with Shostakovich’s The Nose in 2016 was greeted with delight. For Carmen he has devised a far-from-traditional version, incorporating music written by Bizet for the score but not usually heard, and giving a new voice to the opera’s endlessly fascinating central character.

Cast

• Anna Goryachova

  Carmen

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  Francesco Meli

  Don José

• Kostas Smoriginas

  Escamillo

• Gyula Nagy

  Moralès

• Kristina Mkhitaryan

  Micaëla

• David Soar

  Zuniga

• Jacquelyn Stucker

  Frasquita

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  Aigul Akhmetshina

  Mercédès