Carmen

Evan Rogister, conductor | Emmanuelle Bastet, stage director Elmina Hasan, Carmen | Julien Henric, Don José | Natalia Tanasii, Micaëla Jérôme Boutillier (9, 11 and 17 November), John Chest (13 and 15 November), Escamillo Li Ziqi, Frasquita | Amandine Portelli, Mercédès | Sergio Villegas-Galvain, Le Dancaïre Li Zhengyang, Le Remendado | Adrien Mathonat, Zuniga | Bruno Khouri, Moralès Tim Northam, set design | Véronique Seymat, costumes | François Thouret, lighting Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine Chœur de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux | Salvatore Caputo, chorus master Jeune académie vocale d’Aquitaine (JAVA) | Marie Chavanel, chorus master When Carmen premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1875, it marked the beginning of a long series of successes that continues to this day.

An emblem of assertive female desire, Carmen speaks, through its famous arias, of freedom, violence, and power.

In Emmanuelle Bastet's new production, conceived with the Shanghai Opera, the stage director, whose La Bohème was acclaimed on the Grand-Théâtre stage in 2024, returns to the source of the story and gives new psychological depth to the character of Don José.

In Seville, within a society where Gypsies and Spanish society coexist with varying degrees of harmony, Carmen is, according to Emmanuelle Bastet, a "matter of sensation.

" The burning sun, the dust, the skin, the breath, the smell of tobacco, the rustle of fabrics, and the jingle of jewellery: everything here is a pretext for drama, for the dizziness of desire, and the sting of jealousy.

A popular opera of absolute modernity where passion does not sublimate, but devastates.

Coproduction Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Opéra National de Bordeaux in collaboration with the Shangyin Opera House Ateliers de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux and Shangyin Opera House Opera filmed for broadcast as part of Bordeaux Live Opéra, on NoA and ICI Nouvelle-Aquitaine