The productions by the Catalan director Calixto Bieito, the “Quentin Tarantino of the opera stage”, cut incisively into the reality of their stories, making them shockingly provocative. And what work would suit this directing style better – with its similarly crazed passions and emotions – than Georges Bizet’s French opera Carmen? The director has transplanted this opera set in 19th-century Seville to post-Franco Spain, where he depicts a savage and cruel world with a high degree of realism – and not a hint of the clichéd flamenco of folklore. Bieito’s production has been staged all over the world, and in 2021 it finally came to Hungary for everyone to enjoy here.
AUTHORS
Composer: Georges Bizet
Libretto after the novel of the same title by Prosper Mérimée by: Henri Meilhac, Halévy Ludovic
Director: Calixto Bieito
Set designer: Flores Tarres Ildefonso
Costume designer: Mercé Paloma
Assistant director: Lucía Fernández Astigarraga
Hungarian subtitles: Judit Kenesey
English subtitles: Arthur Roger Crane
Head of the Children's Chorus: Nikolett Hajzer
Chorus director: Gábor Csiki
