Carmen on Špilberk - summer stage of the NdB 2024
Celebrate the end of the opera season in the romantic setting of Špilberk Castle as part of the annual Opera on Špilberk project, which takes place in Brno. The year 2023 will belong to the legendary story of passion, desire for freedom and crime, where it can lead us. The dramatic opera tells the story of Don José, who deserted from the war because of his foolish passion for a wild gypsy woman, became a smuggler and a murderer.
Saturday
8/29/2026
7:00 PM
Špilberk
Brno
300 - 900 CZK
Description
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
A thin novel by the French writer Prosper Merimée about Don José, whose foolish passion for a wild Gypsy girl forces him to leave the army and become a smuggler and murderer, served as the base for one of the most famous opera. The success won its author, the French composer Georges Bizet, international fame. Bizet had never been in Spain but he loved exotic motives and the atmosphere of the story fascinated him. In his music, he masterly connected Spanish motives and French charm, giving the operatic world several immortal hits. Carmen directed by Tomáš Pilař returns more to the original story and reveals further layers of individual characters, who are mainly people coming from completely different environments. It is not only Carmen’s volatile and unchained love with which the jealous José cannot cope. It is the conflict of two worlds – the organized and tidy world of José and Micaëla, made up for preconcieved rules, and the world of gypsies and smugglers living from one day to another, without any law and governed by their impulses. These worlds suddenly intersect and the differences creates tension and conflict leading to the complete destruction of both the worlds. Nobody is able to prevent the inevitable because nobody is willing, or able, to give in.
CAST
Carmen: Václava Krejčí Housková
Don José: Peter Berger j. h.,
Micaëla: Daniela Straková-Šedrlová
Escamillo: Roman Hoza
Zuniga: David Nykl
Mercédés: Jitka Klečanská
Fransquita: Andrea Široká
Le Remendado: Zoltán Korda
Le Dancaïre: Tadeáš Hoza
Morales: Igor Loškár
