Carmen by Georges Bizet
Performers
Xavier Puig, conductor
Jaume Villanueva, staging
Miquel Villalba, director del coro
Orquestra de cambra Terrassa 48
Quim Térmens, concertino
Kevin Donaire, coreography inspired by the flamenco universes of Eli Ayala and Nacho Blanco
Òpera Popular de Barcelona, stable company:
Caitlin Redding, Carmen
Arturo Garralón, Don José
Joan García Gomà, Escamillo
Mireia Tarragó, Micaela
Danil Sayfullin, Zúñiga
Alba Martínez, Frasquita
Maria Batlle, Mercedes
Adrià Mas, Remendado
Jordi Ferrer, Dancaire
Alejandro Chelet, Morales
Choir and ballet of the Popular Opera of Barcelona
With the collaboration of the students of the Professional Dance Conservatory of the Institut del Teatre of the Diputació de Barcelona
Program
Carmen
Details
Our Carmen is the chronicle of a homicide, the violent murder of a woman.
Taken straight from the imaginary of Luís Buñuel, the mise-en-scène is nourished by the sour sherry of the tablaos in Las Ramblas and the fragrance of oranges and seawater that has that bitter aftertaste of the absinthe in Barcelona’s brothels, where the port has ben consolidated as the place for smuggling and slavery from an even more intense secular misery during General Franco’s dictatorship.