Carmen - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Carmen
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
based on the novella by Prosper Mérimée
First performance on March 3, 1875 in Paris
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on January 20, 2018
recommended from 14 years
3 hours / One break
In French with German and English surtitles
Introduction in the foyer on the right: 45 minutes before the start of the performance
With his CARMEN, Georges Bizet wrote a declaration of war on romantic opera: with her indomitable will for freedom, the title heroine embodies the opposite of the passive, suffering female characters who previously dominated the opera stage. But CARMEN is anti-romantic in an even broader sense: Bizet's opera shows a world in which love as an interpersonal feeling no longer has any place and has long since been replaced by sex and violence. Carmen and the torero Escamillo are representatives of this society, in which only the right of the strongest counts. A world in which Don José, with his bourgeois ideal of love, remains a doomed alien. With this disillusioned look at the bleakness of human existence, Bizet stands in close proximity to the novels of Emile Zola - contrary to the clichéd image of many performances, Bizet's Spain is a place that shows the ugliness of poverty in bright light.
Subject to change.
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
based on the novella by Prosper Mérimée
First performance on March 3, 1875 in Paris
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on January 20, 2018
recommended from 14 years
3 hours / One break
In French with German and English surtitles
Introduction in the foyer on the right: 45 minutes before the start of the performance
With his CARMEN, Georges Bizet wrote a declaration of war on romantic opera: with her indomitable will for freedom, the title heroine embodies the opposite of the passive, suffering female characters who previously dominated the opera stage. But CARMEN is anti-romantic in an even broader sense: Bizet's opera shows a world in which love as an interpersonal feeling no longer has any place and has long since been replaced by sex and violence. Carmen and the torero Escamillo are representatives of this society, in which only the right of the strongest counts. A world in which Don José, with his bourgeois ideal of love, remains a doomed alien. With this disillusioned look at the bleakness of human existence, Bizet stands in close proximity to the novels of Emile Zola - contrary to the clichéd image of many performances, Bizet's Spain is a place that shows the ugliness of poverty in bright light.
Subject to change.