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Georges Bizet, Carmen

Overture

I: Introduction: "Sur la place chacun passe"

I: "Avec la garde montante" (Urchins)

I: "La cloche a sonné (Soldiers, Young men, Cigarette factory Girls)

I: "Mais nous ne voyons pas la Carmencita" (Soldiers, Young men)

I: "Carmen, sur tes pas, nous nous pressons tous (Young Men, Cigarette factory Girls, Don José)

I: "Quand je vous aimerai?" - "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Habanera) (Carmen, Chorus)

I: "Monsieur le brigadier? - Parle-moi de ma mère!" (Micaëla, Don José / Don José, Micaëla)

I: "Votre mère avec moi sortait de la chapelle" (Micaëla, Don José)

I: "Ma mère, je la vois.." (Don José, Micaëla)

I: "Au secours!" (Cigarette factory Girls, Zuniga, Soldiers)

I: "Voyons, brigadier..." - "Tra la la la..." (Zuniga, Don José, Carmen, Cigarette factory Girls, Soldier, Don José)

I: "Près des remparts de Séville" (Carmen, Don José)

Entr'acte

II: "Tout est bien alors" - "Vivat! vivat le toréro!" (Chorus, Zuniga, Mercédès, Frasquita, Escamillo, Carmen, Andrès, Lilas Pastia)

II: "Votre toast... je peux..." - "Toréador, en garde" (Escamillo, Pastia, Zuniga, Carmen, Chorus, Frasquita, Lilas Pastia, Dancaïre)

II: "Nous avons en tête une affaire!" (Dancaïre, Frasquita, Mercédès, Remendado, Carmen)

II: "Amoureuse... ce n'est pas une raison" - "Halte-là! Qui va là?" (Remendado, Don José, Mercédès, Frasquita, Dancaïre, Carmen)

II: "Je vais danser en votre honneur" (Carmen, Don José)

II: "La fleur que tu m'avais jetée" (Don José)

II: "Non, tu ne m'aimes pas!" (Carmen, Don José)

II: "Holà! Carmen! Holà!" (Zuniga, Don José, Carmen, Dancaïre, Remendado, Gypsies)

II: "Suis-nous à travers la campagne" (Frasquita, Mercédès, Dancaïre, Remendado, Gypsies)

Entr'acte

III: "Écoute, compagnon, écoute!" (Smugglers, Frasquita, Mercédès, Carmen, Don José, Dancaïre, Remendado)

III: "Mêlons!"/"Mêlons!"/"Coupons!" (Frasquita, Mercédès)

III: "Carreau! Pique!... La mort!" (Carmen)

III: "Quant au douanier, c'est notre affaire! (Carmen, Mercédès, Frasquita, Gypsies, Dancaïre, Remendado)

III: "Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante" (Micaëla)

III: "Je suis Escamillo, toréro de Grenade" (Escamillo, Don José)

III: "Halte! quelqu'un est là qui cherche à se cacher" (Remendado, Carmen, Dancaïre, Don José, Micaëla, Chorus)

Entr'acte

IV: "A dos cuartos!" (Chorus)

IV: "Les voici! voici la quadrille!" (Chorus)

IV: "Si tu m'aimes, Carmen" (Escamillo, Carmen, Frasquita, Mercédès)

IV: "C'est toi! - C'est-moi!" (Carmen, Don José)

Bizet's Carmen

Calixto Bieito (stage director), Sir Mark Elder (conductor) – With Elīna Garanča (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Maria Agresta (Micaëla)...

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Cast

Calixto Bieito — Stage director

Alfons Flores — Set designer

Mercè Paloma — Costumes

Alberto Rodríguez Vega — Lighting

Elīna Garanča — Carmen

Roberto Alagna — Don José

Maria Agresta — Micaëla

Program notes

Bizet's Carmen returns to the Paris Opera for a production to kindle every passion, starring the incandescent Elīna Garanča in the title role and Roberto Alagna as Don José—as well as Maria Agresta as Micaëla and Ildar Abdrazakov as Escamillo! In this provocative staging by Calixto Bieito, our heroine takes on a grittier and less exoticized disposition, making her tragic plight resound with real-world implications.

Rather than in the fantastical Spain imagined by Prosper Mérimée in his novella that inspired Bizet, Bieito situates his Carmen in a contemporary milieu characterized by economic instability and aggressive machismo. The remarkable depth of this all-star cast shows in the quality of their vocals and their dramatic conviction, while Sir Mark Elder leads the Paris Opera Orchestra in one of the most famous operatic scores ever composed—one that sounds resolutely modern even a century and a half after its composition.

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