CARMEN opera by Georges Bizet

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CARMEN opera by Georges Bizet
Conductor Ivaylo Krinchev
Directed by Georgi Dinev

Soloists Gergana Rusekova/Mikhaela Berova, Boris Taskov, Desislava Stefanova, Russi Nikov - guest, Yanitsa Nesheva, Mikhaela Berova/Gergana Rusekova

This is the last performance of "Carmen" of the State Opera-Stara Zagora with the premiere on July 7 this year at the Antique Forum.

The opera "Carmen" opened the renovated after the fire building of the State Opera - Stara Zagora in October 2010. "Carmen" was presented at the Antique Forum in Stara Zagora in 2002. Both performances were directed by Plamen Kartalov. "Carmen" also premiered on the stage of the Stara Zagora Opera House in 1973, directed by Georgi Petrov. In 1951 , when the director was Stefan Makedonski. The first performance of the opera "Carmen" in Stara Zagora was on 23 May 1948. Then the conductor was Romeo Raichev, the director Stefan Makedonski, the painter Peter Ruskov, the choirmaster was Georgi Neshev, and the balletmaster was Anna Vorobyova.
Bizet's opera Carmen is based on the novella Carmen by the French writer Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870), written in 1845. The libretto was written by Henri Méliès and Louis Halévy, who also wrote many of the texts of Offenbach's operettas, including La Belle Helene. They changed many things from Merimee's novella, especially with the two protagonists. Their images are much ennobled and with enhanced positive traits. The secondary character in the novella, Escamillo, is presented as a contrasting image to Don José. The image of Micaela is also expanded and contrasted with Carmen. The opera Carmen was first performed on 3 March 1875 in Paris. The premiere was a complete failure, and Bizet was accused of immorality. The composer died on 3 June that year, exactly three months after the premiere. Only after his death, Carmen was performed in Vienna with extraordinary success. Since then it has not left the stages of the whole world and it is not by chance that it is considered the most popular of all operas. Bizet's friend, the composer Ernest Guiraud (1837-1892), with whom he had studied together in Italy, made a new revision of Carmen, replacing the spoken dialogues with recitatives and inserting ballet music in the opera's last act. Today, the opera is performed both in the original and in Guiraud's revision.

30 November 19:00h. Come !!!