![]() According to revival director Joan Anton Rechi: “Calixto wanted a high level of realism to show a wild and cruel universe full of passions and primal virility,” and notes the production is more faithful to the gritty and raw naturalism of the original Prosper Mérimée novella that Bizet and his co-librettists adapted. Italian conductor Carlo Montanaro leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus.īieito’s Carmen is set in modern-day, post-Franco Spain in the autonomous Spanish city of Ceuta, the ancient Mediterranean outpost located on the north coast of Africa. The cast also features baritone Zachary Nelson as the dashing bullfighter Escamillo, and soprano Ellie Dehn in the role of Micaëla. Irene Roberts performs the role of the impassioned gypsy Carmen and Brian Jagde is Don José, the lovesick soldier who falls under her spell. Bieito’s “intelligent, persuasive and intense” (The Guardian, UK) high-energy production is staged here by Spanish director Joan Anton Rechi, Bieto’s longtime collaborator. His raw, sexually-charged and cinematic vision of Carmen unabashedly provokes the visceral emotions pulsing through this tale of love, lust and murder. ![]() The so-called “bad-boy of opera,” Bieito is hailed for his provocative and iconoclastic opera productions. Register now for early entry to ensure best seating at /simulcast.īizet’s opera about a defiantly free-spirited woman and her obsessive lover has delighted audiences for well over 150 years and returns to San Francisco Opera in a bold new production by innovative director Calixto Bieito. Baseball fans, opera lovers and tens of thousands from the Bay Area community will have the chance to experience a live performance of one of opera’s most beloved and tuneful works while seated on the field or in the stands of San Francisco’s AT&T Park. ![]() San Francisco Opera partners with the San Francisco Giants and presenting sponsor Taube Philanthropies for Opera at the Ballpark-a free live simulcast of Georges Bizet’s Carmen-on Saturday, Jat 7:30 p.m.
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