Organization

Lighting designer

Karl Wiedemann

Stage director

Jan Eßinger

Conductor

Sébastien Rouland

Costume designer

Benita Roth

Set designer

Sonja Füsti

Dramaturge

Anna Maria Jurisch

Singer

Bass

Markus Jaursch

Zuniga

Tenor

Angelos Samartzis

Don José

Baritone

Peter Schöne

Escamillo

Stefan Röttig

Max Dollinger

Dancaire

Algirdas Drevinskas

Remendado

Ramazan Karaoglanoglu

Morales

Mezzo-soprano

Carmen Seibel

Carmen

Melissa Zgouridi

Mercedes

Soprano

Bettina Maria Bauer

Frasquita

Pauliina Linnosaari

Michaela

Virginia Ferentschik

Translator

Pascal Paul-Harang

Chanyang Choi

Saarländisches Staatstheater

Orchestra

Saarländische Staatsorchester

Others

Der Opernchor des Saarländischen Staatstheaters

German

French

Saarbrücken

Germany

Staatstheater

Großes Haus

Carmen Bizet

Public

Approved

It was a delicate undertaking for Bizet to present a drama - from the milieu, so to speak - with a crime of passion in the Paris Opéra-Comique. The audience of the premiere, eager for light entertainment music, found today's most-performed opera in the world with its "barbarian music" simply out of place. But Carmen is not a cliché figure from a tourist program who wields the flounce rock. Bizet's opera is perhaps the first, if not the only, realistic opera. The libretto goes back to the novel of the same name by Prosper Mérimée, which referred to an authentic case.

Carmen, who works in a cigarette factory, loves life, she lives self-determined and independently and makes no secret of her life maxim. Her urge for freedom and independence brings José, the man who gave up his civil career for her sake, to the verge of madness. But Carmen's love has wings. When she turns to a star of the arena, the torero Escamillo, the inevitable happens ..

English

Carmen by Bizet, From (2022/2022), Directed by Jan Eßinger,, Conductor Sébastien Rouland, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Saarbrücken, Germany

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