Carmen

Carmen (2024)

Music

Among Seville’s cigar makers, Carmen is the most attractive woman around. Arrested for the assault of a friend, she enthralls the brigadier Don José who lets her escape. For her, José abandons his childhood sweetheart, he gives up his rank, deserts the army… and to what ends will passion drive him when he loses Carmen's love to the glamorous bullfighter Escamillo? We can only imagine the reactions of the first Parisian audiences at the Opéra Comique, who are said to have been shocked to see the incarnation of such an independent heroine. But what would those audiences in 1875 have actually seen on stage? With the support of Palazzetto Bru Zane (Centre de Musique Romantique Française), Opéra de Rouen Normandie have (re)created Bizet’s Carmen with the original costumes, sets and staging of the 1875 premiere.

Director: Jean-Pierre Loisil

Casts

	Deepa Johnny as Carmen
	Stanislas de Barbeyrac as Don José
	Iulia Maria Dan as Micaëla
	Nicolas Courjal as Escamillo
	Faustine de Monès as Frasquita
	Floriane Hasler as Mercédès
	Thomas Morris as Le Remendado
	Florent Karrer as Le Dancaïre
	Nicolas Brooymans as Zuniga
	Yoann Dubruque as Moralès

Crew