
Opera at De Silva Theatre – The Tragedy of Carmen
In 2025, 150 years after Bizet’s death, La Tragédie de Carmen by Peter Brook represents an intense and original homage to the French composer. Created in 1981 with Carrière and Constant, the opera reduces Carmen to its dramatic essence, transforming it into a musical theater of strong emotional impact. The narrative focuses on the protagonists – Carmen, Don José, Escamillo, and Micaëla – eliminating choruses and secondary scenes to explore the central themes: love, desire, obsession, and death. Carmen embodies absolute freedom, while Don José, unable to manage his passion, spirals into jealousy and violence. In the direction of Alberto Barbi for the Tamagno Lyric Company, the scene is bare and minimal: a closed space, few symbolic objects, and great attention to gestures and silences, to emphasize the psychological tension. With an essential and theatrical style, Brook delivers a more authentic and human Carmen, exposing the brutality of a love that consumes and destroys.
Adaptation from Carmen by Georges Bizet By Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Marius Constant
Directed by ALBERTO BARBI
Assistant Director CHIARA BIANCARDI
Scenery by ELEONORA RASETTO
Costumes by ANITA TOURNOUR
Production LIRICA TAMAGNO
Carmen Irene Molinari
Don José Danilo Formaggia
Micaela Marta Leung
Escamillo Jung Jaehong
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