The jealous José provokes a fight with the toreador as Carmen arrives just in time to separate them. The smugglers go off with the women to do their shady business. The cards reveal that her fate is sealed: it will be the death for her and José. She engages in a tarot card reading with Frasquita and Mercédès. José, who has been forced to accompany Carmen into hiding, thinks with remorse of his aged mother. They urge José to join their band and he has no choice but to do so. Blind with jealousy, José flings himself at his superior officer, but the smugglers enter and separate them. In the meantime, Zuniga returns with hopes of seducing the beautiful gypsy. Carmen derides and mocks him, which tortures José. José, who has been demoted to the rank of private, says he must now return to the barracks. Carmen shoos everyone out and dances for him. The band of smugglers invites Carmen to join them on a heist, but she hears of José approaching. Carmen rejects his advances, saying she is in love with José. Act IIĬarmen sings and dances with two of her female friends, Frasquita and Mercédès. José’s superiors see through his ruse, and he is taken to prison.
José feigns being thrown to the ground, enabling Carmen to run off. Once alone with José, she promises him a rendezvous later that night-if he lets her escape. During the interrogation conducted by the lieutenant Zuniga, Carmen refuses to answer questions instead, she cheekily sings to herself.
A furious fight, started by Carmen, breaks out in the factory. His fiancée Michaëla arrives, bringing greetings from his far-away mother. He is perturbed, yet moved by her gesture. She sings a habanera and throws a flower to Don José, a corporal in the Dragoons. Outside a cigarette factory, men press forward to see the cigarette girls, especially the gypsy Carmen. Michael Mayes and Chelsea Basler return to BLO, and BLO Music Director David Angus conducts.
Jennifer Johnson Cano, critically acclaimed for her star turn in BLO’s 2015 production of Don Giovanni, returns to Boston as the fiery, seductive gypsy who destroys the naïve soldier Don José, played by Roger Honeywell. Set in the arid earthiness of 1970’s post-Franco Spanish North Africa, this raw and cinematic vision is a powerful account of the defiantly free-spirited woman and her obsessive lover, set to Bizet’s intoxicating score. Please enable JavaScript if you would like to comment on this blog.Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic HalévyĪ co-production with Boston Lyric Opera and San Francisco OperaīLO’s 40th Anniversary Season launches with the East Coast premiere of Calixto Bieito’s Carmen in a co-production with San Francisco Opera – marking the director’s long-awaited U.S. Press Release View the entire comment thread. Calixto Bieito's production of Carmen features two casts. Greer Grimsley and Brandon Jovanovich sing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Diana Damrau sings the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor. Gerald Finley is Sweeney Todd opposite Stephanie Blythe. Leah Crocetto, Michael Fabiano and Thomas Hampson star in Luisa Miller. November 25- December 9 2015: Il barbiere di Sivigliaĭecember 8-13 2015: Usher House and La Chute de la Maison Usherĭavid Gockley announced his last season at San Francisco Opera today. November 18- December 6 2015: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
October 20- November 20 2015: The Magic Flute
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