Carmen opera: How #Carmen went from the tragic heroine to the feminist icon.
If you've ever seen a performance or even a clip of the opera Carmen, you probably start humming the melody of the Habanera or the Toreador aria. It's much easier to recall her first scene, openly sexually when she sings from l'amour to the soldiers outside the cigarette factory, than to think of the aria from Act III where the tarot cards predict her brutal death. Because the opera's most enduring femme fatale is killed by Don José, the man she ruthlessly throws off. That is, at least, until a 2018 production put the gun in her hand.
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For the first few months of 2018, they rewrite her character from a new perspective. Of a new production by Barrie Kosky that was in the Royal Opera House into London opens , to world-famous flamenco dancer María Pagés who brings her show Yo Carmen to Sadler's Wells , a character of male invention has become a feminist icon? The enchanting story about the Spanish gypsy girl has been produced and reproduced thousands of times since the novella Carmen of Prosper Mérimée was published in 1845 and became famous in an opera by George Bizet and his two librettists in 1875. After his 33rd performance, Bizet tragically died of heart disease. Maybe the show's terrible ratings were the last straw.
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The story originally takes place in 19th century Seville, and the centre revolves around Don José, a soldier who has the misfortune of being seduced by the eponymous gypsy. She is sweet and hedonistic at one moment, and the other is sardonic and cold-blooded. Overall, a difficult woman to love, especially when she loses interest and moves on with the attractive bullfighter who is new to town. Don José shuns his job, the comfort of home and his childhood sweetheart Micaëla to pursue Carmen until he realizes he can never get her. And if he can't get her, no one can. The opera ends with Carmen meeting him outside the local arena and telling him once and for all that she doesn't love him. He stabs her and declares “Oh Carmen, my sweetheart” when the curtains close.
