Carmen
2013/2014 Season
Music by Georges Bizet
Opera in 3 acts
Sung in French with Japanese supertitles
Opera Palace
Set in Spain, Don José fatal love for Carmen flares up with passion.
Together with the well-known arias such as "Habanera" and "Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre/Toreador song", Carmen, a free-spirited woman, and Don José, an honest and trusting man, unfurls a drama of love and death. This great masterpiece of Bizet, with overwhelming popularity around the world, is directed by Uyama Hitoshi, who brings a flavor of Spain to this production. Carmen is sung by Ketevan Kemoklidze, a popular mezzosoprano who combines fine singing abilities, good looks, and acting skills so well that she is flooded with offers from opera houses all over the world. Gaston Rivero, a young tenor who attracts audiences with his mellow voice and sweet mask, will sing Don José.
Staff
- Conductor
- Ainars Rubikis
- Production
- Uyama Hitoshi
- Scenary Design
- Shima Jiro
- Costume Design
- Ogata Kikuko
- Lighting Design
- Sawada Yuji
- Choreographer
- Ishii Jun
Cast
- Carmen
- Ketevan Kemoklidze
- Don José
- Gaston Rivero
- Escamillo
- Dmitry Ulyanov
- Micaëla
- Hamada Rie
- Zuniga
- Tsumaya Hidekazu
- Moralès
- Masu Takashi
- Le Dancaïre
- Tani Tomohiro
- Le Remendado
- Ono Mitsuhiko
- Frasquita
- Hirai Kaori
- Mercédès
- Shimizu Kasumi
- Chorus
- New National Theatre Chorus
- Orchestra
- Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Schedule
| 19 | 22 | 26 | 29 | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SU | WE | SU | WE | SA |
| 2:00 | 2:00 | 2:00 | 6:30 | 2:00 |
Tickets
| S | A | B | C | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ¥23,100 | ¥18,900 | ¥12,600 | ¥7,350 | ¥4,200 |
Tax included
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