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Opera ir four acts by GEORGES BIZET

Audiences will be offered a chance to view a recording of the premiere from 2 March 2017. It will be available online from 19 February 2021 until 28 February 2021. When purchasing the ticket, you’ll receive an e-mail with a link to the recording and an access code. In the set time frame each recording will be available an unlimited number of times.

The recording will be available with subtitles in Latvian.

 

Musical Director and Conductor JĀNIS LIEPIŅŠ
Stage Director MARIE-EVE SIGNEYROLE
Set Designer FABIEN TEIGNE
Costume Designer YASHI
Lighting Designer PHILIPPE BERTHOME

Choreographer GUNTIS SPRIDZĀNS

Video Artist ARTIS DZĒRVE

 

At the same time celebrated and hated by her own sex, desired and punished by the opposite one, Carmen upsets. The hatred she causes comes from the desire she arises... Stage Director Marie-Eve Signeyrole explains on her debut at the Latvian National Opera: “We chose to place Carmen’s action in a suburb, in the outskirts of a big city: the children who play outside and provoke the police, drug dealers settling scores, street artists and dancers trying to expressing themselves… A small scale and violent world marked by the extreme hardness of human relationships. We needed a place where sensuality, desire and freedom are forbidden by the social context. Carmen’s body has to be in itself a counterpoint to the concrete body of the buildings. A kind of new feminism related to the populations of the suburbs; an assumed femininity that plays with the rules established by men.”

 

CAST:

Carmen – RAMONA ZAHARIJA (Ramona Zaharia)

Don José – DMITRIJS GOLOVŅINS (Dmitry Golovnin)

Escamillo – JĀNIS APEINIS

Micaëla – LAURA TEIVĀNE

Frasquita – INGA ŠĻUBOVSKA-KANCĒVIČA

Dancaïre – KALVIS KALNIŅŠ

Remendado – MIHAILS ČUĻPAJEVS

Zuniga – KRIŠJĀNIS NORVELIS

Moralès – RIHARDS MILLERS

LNO orchestra and choir