Carmen

Address Plac Teatralny 1, Warszawa
Tags Opera
Venue's website www.teatrwielki.pl…
Length 180 min
Director Andrzej Chyra
Release 2018
Author Georges Bizet

Performing: Monika Ledzion-Porczyńska, Adriana Ferfecka, Joanna Kędzior, Anna Bernacka, Dominik Sutowicz, Krzysztof Szumański, Remigiusz Łukomski, Kamil Zdebel, Jan Żądło, Piotr Maciejowski

Georges Bizet was commissioned to compose Carmen by the director of Opéra-Comique in Paris, Camille du Locle. The score was written at the turn of 1874 and 1875. The libretto, based on Prosper Mérimée’s novella, is the work of Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Ever since its creation, Carmen has been fascinating dramaturges, writers, and film-makers. She is an undisputed icon of femininity. Sensual, tantalising, passionate, and mysterious, she is also valiant, unpredictable, temperamental, wild, and proud. But, above all, she is tragic. Her name is widely known and inevitably associated with something that you cannot ignore. It is present in every industry: the arts, hospitality, entertainment, business, and IT.

Older audiences of the Polish National Opera will undoubtedly remember Lech Majewski’s splendid classical production of George Bizet’s most famous opera with monumental sets by Janusz Kapusta and costumes by designed by Hanna Bakuła. Twenty-three years after that premiere, the job of staging Carmen for the Teatr Wielki was taken on by Poland’s popular actor and director, Andrzej Chyra. This time round, the Warsaw audience was treated to a completely different and hardly traditional take on the masterpiece of the world opera repertoire.

conductor: Patrick Fournillier set designer: Barbara Hanicka costume designer: Magda Maciejewska lighting designer: Bartosz Nalazek choreography: Jacek Przybyłowicz video projections: Michał Jankowski dramaturgy: Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk dramaturgic cooperation: Michał Kurkowski chorus master: Mirosław Janowsk children's choir master: Danuta Chmurska hair and makeup: Marek Bryczyński

The show will be presented in its original French with Polish surtitles.

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