Opera in four acts (1875)
New Production! Myung-whun Chung - who will become Music Director of the Teatro alla Scala in 2027 - conducts this new production of Bizet’s Carmen, a co-production with Madrid’s Teatro Real and London’s Royal Opera House, whose Covent Garden premiere was screened in cinemas in June 2024).
Chung guides a cast that is ideally suited to their roles, with lauded French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine as the free-spirited Carmen, Vittorio Grigolo as the soldier Don José who's willing to risk it all for her love, Giorgi Manoshvili as the swaggering bullfighter Escamillo, and Natalia Tanasii as Micaëla.
Director Damiano Michieletto and set designer Paolo Fantin strip back local colour to create a spare, compelling production that focuses squarely on the protagonists' inescapable fate.
