La Tragédie de Carmen
based on Carmen by Georges Bizet
The iconic Carmen in the revised version by Peter Brook and Jean-Claude Carrière is almost as legendary as the original.
Dates
Opera in concert version
Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carrière, Marius Constant | adaptation
Julie Robard-Gendre | mezzo-soprano
Marianne Croux | soprano
Sébastien Droy | tenor
Thomas Dolié | baritone
Nicolas Vial, Laurent Evuort-Orlandi | comedians
Fiona Monbet | direction
Ensembe Musical Miroirs Etendus
About
Carmen, indeed, but revised, corrected and tightened up. It is neither quite the same nor totally different. Or so it would seem. In 1980, Peter Brook and Jean-Paul Carrière explored the novella in depth in order to reprise the opera more effectively. Marius Constant reduced and reorganised a score without choruses or secondary characters which neither opened nor closed like the masterpiece familiar to all. With a performance time of just ninety minutes, the “new look” tragedy is obviously reduced to the basics in “an off-beat première which does not diminish either Mérimée or Bizet,” wrote Jacques Lonchampt enthusiastically in Le Monde. Doubtless the virtuosity of seasoned cigar-maker Julie Robart-Gendre, will lead these gentlemen, and primarily Sébastien Droy’s Don José, a merry dance.
Coréalisation Jeanine Roze Production / Théâtre des Champs-Elysées