Opéra comique in three acts by Georges Bizet
Libretto by Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy after Prosper Mérimée. In French with German & English surtitles.
She is the epitome of eroticism on the opera
on the opera stage: Carmen, the femme fatale par excellence. For her, the
brigadier Don José leaves his bourgeois existence behind and follows her
into the demimonde of crooks and smugglers. But their
passionate affair is short-lived, and Don José is soon forced to marry the
with the celebrated bullfighter Escamillo in a battle for Carmen's love.
ring. Frenzied with jealousy, Don José confronts Carmen, and
and the tragedy inevitably takes its course.
Georges Bizet's last stage work celebrated an unprecedented
unprecedented triumph and is one of the most frequently performed operas today.
ever. World-famous melodies such as Carmen's "Habanera" or the couplet
of the boastful Escamillo "Votre toast" have
have become anthems of opera. It also gave rise to the Carmen myth:
Sensuality, seduction and the flightiness of love are the associations that
associations that this dazzling female figure triggers. She takes
what she wants - an absolute provocation for a patriarchal
a patriarchal society that mercilessly used Carmen as a
as a projection screen for everything instinctively repressed. The
flip side of the story is the violence against women who want a
who demand a self-determined life for themselves. Carmen
almost more about the deadly desire of a man who, torn between two women
torn between two women and the loss of his position
no other way out than to murder his unfaithful lover.
his unfaithful lover.
In his production, director Immo Karaman
production challenges the classic role models of Carmen. Through the
eyes of the perpetrator Don José, the clear contours between reality and
reality and madness. With analytical depth of focus
we look into the darkest corners of the human psyche, between sex and violence.
between sex and violence.
