OperaUpClose

After a sell-out Festival debut in 2015 performing The Marriage of Figaro, OperaUpClose returns with Bizet’s famous opera Carmen. This brand-new English-language adaptation will have you hanging on every word of the intense and popular classic. Carmen captivates and provokes, disturbing the composure of everyone she encounters. Sparks fly when she meets José, but as her passion cools, his turns to obsession.

The production takes place in a torrid South American landscape of dust and concrete, where small-town boredom and machismo can turn nasty. Bizet’s powerful melodies are orchestrated for a quartet of strings, woodwind and percussion by composer Harry Blake (OperaUpClose’s La Traviata and Don Giovanni).