Carmen

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.

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Cast

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Deepa Johnny

Carmen

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Stanislas de Barbeyrac

Don José

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Iulia Maria Dan

Micaëla

Nicolas Courjal

Escamillo

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Faustine de Monès

Frasquita

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Floriane Hasler

Mercédès

Thomas Morris

Le Remendado

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Florent Karrer

Le Dancaïre

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Nicolas Brooymans

Zuniga

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Yoann Dubruque

Moralès