The Argentinean director wants to free the Seville of Carmen from the … Just before leaving, he pauses and pours out his heart to her. Replay Since March 17th, the Paris Opera has made available a complete opera or ballet every Monday at 7:30 p.m. on operadeparis.fr and on france.tvculturebox or arte.tv, as well as on our Facebook page. This free woman, faithful only to herself, becomes the symbol of Spain’s revolutionary identity and also becomes Spain itself.In romantic Spain, religion and laity are mixed in a chaotic manner: in the representation, a soldier This glance can contain a series of dark rites that are part of seduction in all the representation of the meaning of “Spanishness”.Mérimée describes Carmen as follows: «She has three black things: her eyes, eyebrows and eyelashes, and three white things: the hue of her skin, her teeth and the palm of her hands; and there are also three shades of pink: her lips, her cheeks and her nails.” We can consider this as Mérimée’s representation of woman as an object.Freedom can be associated with the figure of Carmen: this woman perhaps represents it perfectly and above all desires and longs for freedom to live, to love and to be herself. Carmen laughs and escapes.In the tavern of Lillas Pastia, an infamous place and a smugglers’ inn where soldiers and gypsies meet. She remains inflexible and haughty. Visit the program page to see what's scheduled for the next Opera Festival!.

Carmen, though, is not moved by pity.



(He knows Carmen would take advantage of his absence to start a relationship with the toreador.) When for the first time she seduces Don José, making him fall in love, we can think chaos has won over order.To tranquillize society, we can say that in the finale, in order that everything returns to its primitive context, with the death of Carmen, order prevails over chaos.Chaos belongs to the world of obscurantism, of the black art of necromancy which Carmen knows how to use, and brings the unknown, that dark world that brings her close to the devil, phrases repeated several times when Don José talks about.The triumph of the myth shows the triumph of feminine superiority over the weakness of man, who is reduced to being subjugated for his primeval instincts, without reason managing to get the better of passion.

The men rush to the entrance to admire them close-up. Don José is also in the crowd and Frasquita who has seen him, warns Carmen to be careful: it would be better if she went, she says. From 6 th July 2019 Carmen, the masterpiece by Georges Bizet, goes on the stage, in the production signed by the famous Argentinean director Hugo de Ana. Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet.The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalized its first audiences. He and Don José exchange a few words and quickly realize they are rivals in love and prepare to fight a duel to have her. Am meisten erwartete Produktionen. She has an air of bewilderment and approaches the guards shyly, saying she is looking for Brigadier Don José. This character is absolutely revolutionary, above all considering the period in which it was created by Mérimée and represented by the music of Bizet, when women, for the society of those days, were only allowed to live as wives, mothers or nuns, or as prostitutes, a choice that represented the rejection of society in general.In contrast to the passion, there is the strength that enslaves Don José and puts him at the mercy of Carmen, who dominates him completely.
They unsheathe their swords and are about to rush at each other when Carmen and the smugglers appear and stop them.Escamillo departs, but not before inviting them all to the bullfight in Seville. When the team of toreadors arrive, preceded by the band, the crowd becomes euphoric. After all, free she was born and free she will die. Carmen exploited man’sweakness to subjugate him and obtain triumph, with her death.A tobacco factory and the barracks of the dragoons open out onto the main square of Seville. She is agitated for she knows that her man is exasperated and could even kill her, but she is not afraid. She says she no longer loves him and will not change her mind. She is already tired of him and wants to be free; he is full of remorse over having betrayed his mother. As soon as he sees Don José, he orders him to return to the barracks, but Don José refuses and a violent fight breaks out. Among them is Carmen, a beautiful and sensual gypsy. Carmen then comes over and consults the cards. She is an “earth” woman, more than seducing, she frightens men who don’t want to face women’s true reality: being free enterprising human beings. The visceral, carnal Spain described by Mérimée is softened by the “colour” of the music, by bright dances and choruses.To make the story even more suited to opera performance, the character of Micaela was even introduced, who, with her positive aspect, offers a counterpart to the decision and violence of Carmen.Mérimée, in his novella, describes Carmen as a demoniac miserable gypsy and, listening carefully to Bizet, perhaps we manage to glimpse this protagonist. In reality, Carmen survives and, by means of her freedom, becomes a legend.

He humiliates himself by saying that he is ready to do anything in order to have her again. Scared stiff, she quickly hides. He begs her to return to him. She promises a meeting at the tavern of Lillas Pastia, near the walls of the city. He swears he will follow his mother’s advice and is about to throw away the flower when a fight breaks out among the cigarette-makers.


At this point, José, guilty of insubordination, has no choice but to join the smugglers and take up the life of an outlaw.Having arrived at their hideout in the mountains, the smugglers sit and rest. Teilen Teilen Folgen.