Carmen
- Location:
- Opernhaus Stuttgart, Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
- Date
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Killing the beloved in order to possess her completely is the brutal logic of the relationship act and the flip side of the idea of romantic love, which has a lot to do with loyalty and trust, but also a lot with possessiveness and control. The shockingly realistic aspect of Carmen was never the depiction of popular Spain - Bizet himself had never been there - but the portrayal of a love "which in its means is war, in its basis the mortal hatred of the sexes", as Friedrich Nietzsche admiringly put it. Sebastian Nübling's 2006 production reads Bizet's masterpiece as a post-mortem drama of relationships, a chamber play about the power of the gaze and the destructive power of hidden drives and aggression, far removed from all folkloristic clichés.
Opéra comique in four acts
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy based on the novella of the same name by Prosper Mérimée
by Georges Bizet
I. + II. Act: approx. 1 hr 45 min.
approx. 25 min. intermission after Act II
Act III + IV: approx. 1 hr 5 min. Act: approx. 1 hr. 5 min.