What better way to celebrate the new season? Carmen returns to the Royal Opera House with a first-rate cast. Roberto Alagna brings inimitable tenor star quality to the role of Don José; and prepare for musical and dramatic fireworks from rising mezzo-soprano Elina Garana as she takes on the passionate title role.
Within a couple of years of its premiere at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1875, Bizet’s Carmen went on to a triumph that has never diminished – though its composer, discouraged by its initial reception, would not live to see it. The world’s most popular opera appears once more in Francesca Zambello’s lively production to atmospheric designs by Tanya McCallin, first seen in 2006.
Taking the leads this time around are the glamorous rising star Latvian mezzo Elina Garana as Carmen and Roberto Alagna as her fated lover and nemesis, Don José. Ildebrando d’Arcangelo returns as the macho bullfighter Escamillo and Chinese soprano Liping Zhang, counterbalancing the flamboyant gypsy, sings good-girl Micaëla. Bertrand de Billy, particularly admired as an interpreter of the music of his native France, makes a welcome return to Covent Garden to conduct this revival.
Run Time: Three hours | 1 Interval
Sung in French with English surtitles
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