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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