Sat, Sep. 17, 2022, 6.00 pm - 9.15 pm | Main Stage Premiere
Carmen will die in the end. That is certain, both to the audience and to Carmen herself, who speaks of an inevitable fate. It is the fate of an attractive factory worker from Seville, an idolised, confident woman. In Don José, Carmen meets a man who falls hopelessly for her, but also confines her through his love. In the conflict between her freedom and this love, she decides in favour of freedom. Don José cannot and will not accept this, he sees red - literally - and kills Carmen. Today, such an act is called femicide: women are killed because they are women. Men delude themselves into believing that the woman belongs to them and that they have total power over her. Ultimately, anyone can be a murderer when it comes to love, to frenzy, to jealousy, to obsession.
Musical direction: Yoel Gamzou
Production and stage: Herbert Fritsch
Costumes: José Luna
Lighting: Carsten Sander
Dramaturgy and dialogue version: Sabrina Zwach
Choir: Christian Günther
Children's and youth choir: Luiz de Godoy
In French with German and English surtitles
Supported by the Foundation for the Support of the Hamburg State Opera