Bizet: Carmen

Bizet: Carmen

171 mins | Music | Nov. 1, 2014

Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the woman who lives by her own rules. Aleksandrs Antonenko is Don José, the soldier who falls under her spell, and Ildar Abdrazakov plays Escamillo, the swaggering bullfighter who takes Carmen away from Don José—an action that seals Carmen’s tragic fate. Anita Hartig is Micaëla, and Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Richard Eyre’s hit production, set in 1930s Spain.

Bizet: Carmen

171 mins | Music | Nov. 1, 2014

Bizet: Carmen
Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the woman who lives by her own rules. Aleksandrs Antonenko is Don José, the soldier who falls under her spell, and Ildar Abdrazakov plays Escamillo, the swaggering bullfighter who takes Carmen away from Don José—an action that seals Carmen’s tragic fate. Anita Hartig is Micaëla, and Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Richard Eyre’s hit production, set in 1930s Spain.
Producers The Metropolitan Opera
Original title Bizet: Carmen
Directors Matthew Diamond, Richard Eyre
Writers Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy, Prosper Mérimée

Cast

Aleksandrs Antonenko

as Don José

Keith Miller

as Zúñiga

John Moore

as Moralès

Anita Hartig

as Micaëla

Kiri Deonarine

as Frasquita

Jennifer Johnson Cano

as Mercédès

Ildar Abdrazakov

as Escamillo

Malcolm MacKenzie

as Le Dancaïre

Eduardo Valdes

as Le Remendado

Joyce DiDonato

as Self - Host