Carmen

Evan Rogister, conductor | Emmanuelle Bastet, direction Elmina Hasan, Carmen | Julien Henric, Don José | Natalia Tanasii, Micaëla Jérôme Boutillier (9, 11 and 17 November), John Chest (13 and 15 November), Escamillo Li Ziqi, Frasquita | Amandine Portelli, Mercédès | Sergio Villegas-Galvain, Le Dancaïre Li Zhengyang, Le Remendado | Adrien Mathonat, Zuniga | Bruno Khouri, Moralès Tim Northam, set design | Véronique Seymat, costumes | François Thouret, lighting Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux | Salvatore Caputo, chorus master Jeune académie vocale d'Aquitaine (JAVA) | Marie Chavanel, chorus master When Carmen premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1875, it began a long run of success that continues to this day.

An emblem of a female desire that asserts itself, Carmen speaks, through its famous arias, of freedom, violence and power.

In the new production by Emmanuelle Bastet, created with the Shanghai Opera House, the director whose La Bohème was seen on the Grand-Théâtre stage in 2024 returns to the source of the story and gives new psychological depth to the character of Don José.

In Seville, in a society where the Romani people and Spanish society coexist more or less comfortably, Carmen is, in Emmanuelle Bastet's words, a "matter of sensation".

The burning sun, the dust, the skin, the breath, the smell of tobacco, the brushing of fabrics and the tinkling of jewellery: everything here serves the drama, the dizziness of desire and the sting of jealousy.

A popular opera of absolute modernity in which passion does not sublimate but ravages.

Co-production Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Opéra National de Bordeaux in collaboration with the Shangyin Opera House Workshops of the Opéra National de Bordeaux and the Shangyin Opera House Opera filmed for broadcast as part of Bordeaux Live Opéra, on NoA and ICI Nouvelle-Aquitaine