Carmen - Schedule, Program & Tickets

The Spain created by Bizet is, even before a geographical place (never visited by the author), the place of human psychology, of passion and instinct, of primary conflicts: Love and Hate, Freedom and Legami, Male and Female . And it is in these dualisms, in this double connotation that the universality of the work and the two characters of Don José and Carmen must be sought. Unfortunately, this psychological complexity is rarely highlighted in the current theatrical practice; in fact, the wandering and rapacious gypsy is preferred to the Lucifer character who hides in the protagonist. In defining the color of Spain, Bizet does not start from true and proper folklore, so much so that from the Spanish music the composer takes up only some rhythm (a Habanera and a Seguidilla). The "Spaniardism" of Carmen is not pure color, on the contrary it exercises a precise dramatic function and even sets an environmental realism that directs all work on a plane whose relationship with reality is much more direct and immediate than the history of opera had ever experienced.

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