1/7/2023 0 Comments Carmen opera 2022![]() ![]() More often it is he who is in pieces while she pursues her own ends. She is not cowed by Don José’s tempers or threats even if (traditionally) she is ultimately killed by him, in brilliantly realized final scene – one of the few times the more intimate downstage space is deployed in the show, as well as in a breathtakingly atmospheric card trio. We are wrong-footed when the sultry beauty who we assume to be the titular heroine turns out not to be at all Carmen herself wears riding boots and trousers, and saunters about the giving as good as she gets. The setting is fairly traditional, with naturalistic costumes and recognizably Andalusian gates, grills, and props lighting is mostly understated and designs don’t drip with trashy exaggeration. Plenty of InventionĬecilia Stinton’s new production for the Opera Holland Park 2022 season doesn’t go that far by any stretch, but there is still plenty of invention. ![]() ![]() Some are owing to problematic aspects of the text – stereotyped depictions of the Gypsies in the piece, the spectacle of a murdered woman crowning the action – and others simply the weight of tradition and cliche (smoldering fantasies of dark-haired Spanish beauties donkeys bust-boosting corsets sherry-soaked smugglers straight out of a pulp novel) which tend to blunt the opera’s elemental feel for human drives.Īdventurous directors have even made moves to subvert the opera’s murderous conclusion – Barrie Kosky’s recent production at the Royal Opera House sees the heroine leap up at the last moment with a wry shrug Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production for the Aix festival boldly reframes the opera as an immersive playacting couples therapy. Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” after the novella by Prosper Mérimée, is a piece that presents plenty of challenges to audiences today.
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