Carmen - Schedule, Program & Tickets

“Oh, why do you fall in love with someone?” Carmen asks herself this question in Georges Bizet’s opera of the same name. The bohemian Carmen, one of the workers in a cigarette factory in Seville, has her eye on the young soldier Don José. When Carmen injures one of her colleagues with a knife, it is Don José who is supposed to arrest her. She convinces him to let her go. This leads to his own arrest. Meanwhile, Carmen sets her sights on the bullfighter Escamillo. When Don José is released, he meets Carmen again, gets into an argument with his superior and goes into hiding with Carmen and a gang of smugglers. When Carmen rejects him, Don José vows revenge...

In her production, Lotte de Beer deals with the image of the title character: “Is Carmen actually the free, independent woman we think she is, or is she rather the prisoner of the myth of the free, independent woman? Isn't it precisely the men who attribute this independence to her so that her conquest is even more worthwhile? Maybe her life isn't a series of provocative decisions, maybe it's just a script in which she plays the role she has to play."


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