Future engagements include Musetta ( La bohème) with Seattle Opera, Donna Elvira ( Don Giovanni) with Teatro Petruzzelli, and her debut with Grange Park Opera as Charlotte ( Werther).Įric Fennell makes his Lyric Opera of Kansas City debut singing Don José in Carmen.

Other notable performances include Despina ( Così fan tutte) with Opéra national de Paris, the title role in Carmen with San Diego Opera, San Francisco Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, and New National Theatre, Tokyo, Dorabella ( Così fan tutte) with Seattle Opera and Opéra national de Paris, and Angelina ( Cinderella) for Seattle Opera.

Understand every word: Performed in French with English subtitles.Ī regular at The Metropolitan Opera, Ginger Costa Jackson has performed Rosina ( The Barber of Seville), Lola ( Cavalleria Rusticana) and Smeton ( Anna Bolena). LIBRETTO Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac Fueled by jealousy and obsession, Don José tracks her down and confronts her at a bullfight, where we’ll find out if she has one last trick up her sleeve. But their budding romance ends as abruptly as it started when Carmen takes up with a bullfighter named Escamillo. So powerful and potent is Carmen’s beauty and passion that he impulsively leaves behind a career in uniform and follows her into a new life among her people: smugglers and fortune-tellers. We meet Carmen as the soon-to-be-smitten soldier, Don José, is arresting her. In one of the most popular operas of all time , Bizet’s free-spirited femme fatale, Carmen, is the kind of woman your mother warned you about.

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