"Carmen" enters the second round

The resumption of the opera "Carmen" at the Bregenz Festival will take place for the first time tonight. Already last year showed that the opera is well received by the public.

While last year's freshmen sat in the rain, the god of the time tonight meant, in good weather the opera "Carmen" by

Kaspar Holten directs Carmen

Kasper Holten's staging of the Carmen Opera and the sets of Es Devlin have an audience and a criticism last year already excited.This year, Kasper Holten still appreciates the more work in Bregenz because it is quieter and more relaxed because the production base stands.It's deepening and more complex, you keep working, so Holten.Play this opera on the lake remains a dream and a challenge for him at the same time, because either Carmen is staged with too many clichés or too dry, says Holten.

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Experimental Room

The French mezzo-soprano Gaelle Arquez will also be hearing this year again as an erotic Carmen inspire. For them, as for the many other singers in the team, the resume offers the chance to experiment.

The second year is never a copy, but has advantages. "We know each other, we and the partners on stage, and we can try to where I can go, how my counterpart reacts, we can give the role even more expression and color." opera of the Italian orchestra conductor Antonino Fogliani is really new.For the first time, he is on the platform of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra

The festival sounds mysteriously

The spectacular stage in which Carmen was drowned by Don Jose last year was particularly fascinating for the public.By the second season's perspective, the Bregenz Festival revealed the secret of this scene: how Carmen died in the maritime scene

   
   

      

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29 performances this season [19659007] As part of the 73rd edition of the am Bodensee Festival, "Carmen" is played 29 times, including three additional shows , which were launched because of great interest in the fall and in January. Last year, the 28 performances "Carmen" were sold, and two performances had to be canceled because of the rain.

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