Voice

  • Date: 13 , 17 , 18 , 20 and 21 June, 8 p.m.
    15 June 7 p.m.
  • Hall: Main Auditorium

The never-ending legend of Carmen

Carmen the cigarette factory worker, Carmen beyond the legend, Carmen as passion, Carmen as independence, Carmen free in body and soul, Carmen: The Woman.

Carmen of Seville. Seville of Carmen. Seville, the city of working women riding the first wave of feminism before anyone had the given the movement a name. Carmen determined to be herself and putting her life at risk. Autonomy at work and in love. The sovereignty of free spirits.

Carmen and Bizet are celebrating 150 years since the one of the most well-known operas in the world first came to the stage. Along with the death of the composer, soon after his work premiered. Myth and creator in an embrace which reaches deep within us, and is part of our emotional consciousness. The legend has transcended as a role model for women, Carmen belongs to a world beyond Mérimée or Bizet. This opera has turned drama into a song of freedom.

The stage direction is by Emilio Sagi, an essential name in a long family line associated with opera and zarzuela on the Spanish stage, an academic and university professor, and former Artistic Director of the Teatro Real of Madrid or the Teatro Arriaga of Bilbao. Carmen is Maria Kataeva, Dalibor Jenis, the bullfighter Escamillo, and Piero Pretti plays the role of Don José, along with other important voices for a double cast in six performances.

A title which the Teatro de la Maestranza has prepared with the same passion and joy as Seville has recognised the opera to be an intrinsic part of its identity. Carmen as ambassador of a Seville that was, and is, at the forefront; and that continues to defend rights and beauty in equal measure.

  • Musical director: Karel Mark Chichon / Salvador Vázquez*
  • Stage Director and costume design: Emilio Sagi
  • Set design: Daniel Bianco
  • Lighting design: Eduardo Bravo

Production, Auditorio de la Diputación de Alicante, ADDA

Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla

Coro Teatro de la Maestranza
Director: Iñigo Sampil

Escolanía de Los Palacios
Director: Enrique Cabello

  • Carmen: Maria Kataeva / Gabriela Flores*
  • Don José: Piero Pretti / Alejandro Del Cerro*
  • Micaela: Giuliana Gianfaldoni / María Miró*
  • Escamillo: Dalibor Jenis / Badral Chuluunbaatar*
  • Frasquita: Mercedes Arcuri
  • Mercedes: Anna Gomà
  • Zúñiga: Javier Castañeda
  • Morales: Alejandro Sánchez
  • Dancaire: Pablo Gálvez
  • Remendado: Pablo García López
  • 18, 20 June: *

Karel Mark Chichon

Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2012, since 2016 is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.

Emilio Sagi

In 2020, awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts by the Government of Spain and received the honorary prize for his career from Opera XXI.

Actividades paralelas

Parallel activities

Visitas guiadas: Carmen “La Cigarrera”, ópera y mito

En colaboración con el Museo de Bellas Artes

El Teatro de la Maestranza celebra en la presente temporada 2024-2025 el mito de Carmen, conmemorando los 150 años del estreno de la ópera, así como de la muerte de su compositor, Georges Bizet.

Entre las actividades programadas en torno al mito de la cigarrera sevillana, se encuentran visitas guiadas donde se descubrirán los entresijos de este mito universal.

Fechas: 1, 9 y 22 de abril a las 18h.
Precio: 14€
Venta de entradas a través de la web y en las taquillas del Teatro 
Duración de las visitas: 1 hora y 45 minutos
Punto de encuentro: puerta del Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla

La cigarreras (1915). Gonzalo Bilbao

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