Pacific Opera Victoria presents CARMEN

At Victoria's Royal Theatre February 16, 18, 22, 24, and 28, 2012, at 8 pm
Matinée February 26 at 2:30 pm
Tickets: www.pov.bc.ca or call 250-385-0222
This girl is trouble. Bad, beguiling, and dangerous to know, Carmen will never let herself be chained down by any one man. When she fixes on Don José as her next (but certainly not her last) lover, the naïve but volatile young soldier hasn't a chance. He follows her into a life of crime. Tragedy is inevitable, but what a ride along the way! Carmen brims with fevered life: dashing toreadors, leering soldiers, free-spirited gypsies, and the dynamo that is Carmen herself.
In Carmen the romance of the French language is coupled with sizzling Spanish dance rhythms and the erotically charged music that makes this the sexiest opera of all time.
Carmen is a wonder out of place and time [but] one of the elements that makes this opera so enjoyable is the setting: the town squares, bars, bull rings and mountains of Spain ... the heat of the Seville sun ... sweating cigar girls, cleavage, and sexuality ... the heat gets to everyone.
Dennis Garnhum, Director
Cast and Creative Team
Timothy Vernon: Conductor
Dennis Garnhum: Director
Bretta Gerecke: Set and Costume Designer
Gerald King: Lighting Designer
Jacques Lemay: Choreographer
Allyson McHardy: Carmen
Eric Fennell: Don José
Leslie Ann Bradley: Micaëla
Étienne Dupuis: Escamillo
Andrew Greenwood: Zuniga
Dominique Côté: Moralès
Miriam Khalil: Frasquita
Sylvia Szadovszki: Mercédès
Andrew Love: Le Dancaïre
Riccardo Iannello: Le Remendado

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Full libretto Vo / En : CarmenOpera . org