Important Info

Type: Ballet

City: Zhuhai, China

Starts at: 20:00

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Cast

Performers

Ballet company: Ballet Flamenco de Granada

Creators

Composer: Georges Bizet

Choreographer: Javier Latorre

Overview

"Carmen" is a beautiful tragedy written by the famous writer Mérimée. It was originally adapted into an opera and staged by the composer Bizet. It has since become a long-lasting art work on the world's art stage. It is also the most frequently performed and most popular work in the world.

One of the great works of popularity. Carmen, love freely, passionately and freely. This unrestrained and free-spirited Gypsy girl; this proud woman who is half angel and half devil; this story of jealousy due to love and hatred due to jealousy was born from the wild and rebellious nature of the Gypsy nation. Only by using Flamenco, the national quintessence of Spain, a dance with a subtle poignancy amidst strong emotions and powerful rhythms, can the essence of this story be accurately conveyed.

The Granada Flamenco Dance Company in Spain is a world-renowned outstanding flamenco performance group that has left its dazzling performance achievements all over the world. Granada Flamenco Dance Company in Spain is the world's best flamenco dance company, and the classic large-scale dance drama "Carmen" rehearsed by this company can be regarded as the highest level of Spanish flamenco dance. The whole play perfectly displays the complex and unpredictable character and intense inner conflict of "Carmen" in the play from the dance vocabulary, original singing accompaniment, characterization, dramatic conflicts, and storyline.

Director: Javier Martos
Stage Director: Edward Gonzalez
Produced by: Granada Flamenco Company
Choreography: Javier Latorre
Musical Director: Jorge Sanchez
Costume Design: Ada Lorenzo
Lighting Design: Diego Partin

History

Premiere of this production: 21 February 1949, Shaftesbury Theatre, London

Carmen is a ballet created by Roland Petit and his company 'Les Ballets de Paris' at the Prince's Theatre in London on 21 February 1949, which has entered the repertory of ballet companies in France and around the world. This version is in five scenes and represents a striking admixture of classical ballet, Spanish-style movement, mime, and freshly invented dramatic dance action. It opened "scandalously and brilliantly, with the fabulously sexy Zizi Jeanmaire in the title role" in London and has been regularly performed ever since.

Synopsis

The first scene is set in a street in Seville, where the dancing of a crowd is interrupted by a girl being chased by Carmen. Their fight is only stopped by the arrival of Don José, who assists Carmen's defeated opponent. As he is about to arrest Carmen he is struck by her allure and arranges an assignation for later. That evening in the tavern Don José enters and dances a zapateado to the music of the habanera. Carmen next appears and dances, ending at Don José's feet; he lifts her up and they go up to the bedroom. The customers dance and when Carmen and Don José return they join in before José wraps Carmen in his cape and they go off.

The third scene is in Carmen's bedroom. After a passionate duet, three of Carmen's friends come in and invite her to go outside. At night in the street, Carmen, Don José and the friends prepare to rob a passer-by. Using a dagger Carmen has given him, Don José stabs a man, and after the women have taken his purse, they all flee.

The final scene is set outside the bull-ring where girls await the arrival of their hero, the toreador. He enters and greets them but is fascinated by the indifference shown by Carmen. José enters and notices their looks. The toreador moves into the arena whereupon Don José threatens Carmen, and in a fight to the death he overcomes her. As she dies, hats are tossed from the bull-ring to land at his feet.

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