Guest
Georges Bizet: Carmen - Opéra de Lyon, [Olivier Py; Stefano Montanari; José Maria Lo Monaco, Nathalie Manfrino, Jonghoon Lee; Giorgio Caoduro] Work - Composer : Carmen - Georges Bizet Opera house : Opéra national de Lyon Who is more alluring than Carmen, the dangerous gypsy heroine recklessly playing with the fate of her victims, and her own? Add the spectacle of tavern life and, above all, Bizet’s unforgettable tunes and piquant orchestration. How to resist such a package? Georges Bizet was only 35 when he chose Prosper Mérimée’s short novel CARMEN as the source of what was to be his last opera. The earthy realism of the subject, its low-life characters and its violent conclusion were shocking enough to create a scandal which divided public opinion, but it was not long before adherents including Tchaikovsky and Brahms, Wagner and Nietzsche, recognised it as a healthy antidote to operas on mythical or monarchical themes. And seldom can revolution have been
