Opera at the cinema: Carmen to Cadillac-sur-garonne

Le 09/02/2025

Filmed at the Paris Opéra in 2017, music: Georges Bizet. Musical direction: Sir Mark Elder. Directed by Calixto Bieito. 3:00 with a gourmet interval.

The second opera of the season takes us back in time to one of the greatest performances in recent years of Bizet’s masterpiece and a staple of the Parisian stage repertoire: Carmen!

The brigadier Don José falls under the spell of Carmen, a gypsy girl whom he has let escape when he was supposed to arrest her. After several months spent

Carmen tires of her jealous lover and falls in love with the bullfighter Escamillo. Micaëla, who has gone in search of Don José, whose mother is ill,
is unable to reason with him.

is unable to reason with the soldier, now a deserter, who is ready to do anything for the love of Carmen.

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