by MerciSF | 3-04-2020 | Agenda, Music Carmen BizetOperaOpera de Paris
“Carmen will never surrender, born free, free will she die”cries Bizet’s heroine to Don José at the end of the opera. This irrepressible freedom, coupled with a need to live ever more intensely on a knife-edge, is present in Calixto Bieito’s production as in no other....
by MerciSF | 3-04-2020 | Agenda, Music, See All OperaParis OperaStreaming
Could there be a greater homage to the inventor of magic realism in literature than to make him the principal character of an opera in which all resemblance to reality is abolished in favour of an imaginary world with its own rules? In this work by Offenbach,...
by MerciSF | 3-04-2020 | Agenda, Music OperaParis Opera
In creating this ebullient opera buffa, Rossini captured all the fiery spirit of the comedy by Beaumarchais that inspired it. A native of Venice, birthplace of commedia dell’arte, Damiano Michieletto is highly sensitive to the burlesque vein in Rossini’s music. He...