AUTUMN 2008 TOUR
(Bizet, adapted by Peter Brook, Marius Constant,
Jean-Claude Carrière)
Performed in French with English surtitles.
Performed in French with English surtitles.
La tragédie
de Carmen
is opera at its most powerful, a raw and visceral adaptation of Bizet’s most
popular work. Peter Brook and his
collaborators have crafted a concentrated night of theatre that focuses on the fatal
relationships between the gypsy, soldier, village girl and bullfighter.
The score retains all of the most famous musical moments of the
original; Carmen’s Habanera and Seguidilla, Don Jose’s Flower Song, and Escamillo’s swaggering Toreador Song. Directed by Andrew Steggall, conducted by
Gareth Hancock, and featuring Leah Marian Jones sings the title role, with
Sinead Campbell as Micaëla, David Curry as Don Jose, and Nicholas Garrett as
Escamillo.