Carmen at the Opera House
14 to 29 November
Calixto Bieito moves Bizet's opera from nineteenth-century Seville to Spain just after Franco, with none of the flamenco prettiness. His staging has been seen around the world and reached Budapest in 2021. Sung in French, with surtitles in English.
About the event
The Catalan director cuts into a story rather than decorating it, and what he finds here is a savage world played straight. Gábor Hontvári conducts the Opera's orchestra and chorus. Carmen talks the corporal Don José into letting her go after a fight at the tobacco factory, then pulls him away from his regiment and from Micaëla, the girl his mother sent after him, and by the last act she has left him for the bullfighter Escamillo and he cannot accept it. Surtitles also run in Hungarian and French. Four acts with one interval, and the house does not recommend it for anyone under 16, because of sexual content.
Dates and times
- Saturday 14 November18:00 on 14, 17, 19, 22, 24 and 26 November, and 11:00 on 21 and 29 November
- Tuesday 17 November18:00 on 14, 17, 19, 22, 24 and 26 November, and 11:00 on 21 and 29 November
- Thursday 19 November18:00 on 14, 17, 19, 22, 24 and 26 November, and 11:00 on 21 and 29 November
- Saturday 21 November18:00 on 14, 17, 19, 22, 24 and 26 November, and 11:00 on 21 and 29 November
- Sunday 22 November18:00 on 14, 17, 19, 22, 24 and 26 November, and 11:00 on 21 and 29 November
- Tuesday 24 November18:00 on 14, 17, 19, 22, 24 and 26 November, and 11:00 on 21 and 29 November
- Thursday 26 November18:00 on 14, 17, 19, 22, 24 and 26 November, and 11:00 on 21 and 29 November
- Sunday 29 November18:00 on 14, 17, 19, 22, 24 and 26 November, and 11:00 on 21 and 29 November
