MetOpera: Carmen (2009)

The 2009-2010 MetOpera Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera's third season of live performances, featuring nine transmissions with many of the world's greatest singers featured in brand new roles. James Levine, Music Director at the Met, says "This is a wonderful balance of repertory that includes four new works and a number of great operas that haven’t been performed for a long time". Read more at nzmetopera.com.

CARMEN – Georges Bizet (4 hours / 2 intermissions)
One of the most popular operas of all time, Carmen “is about sex, violence, and racism—and its corollary: freedom,” says Olivier Award-winning director Richard Eyre about his new production of Bizet’s drama. “It is one of the inalienably great works of art. It’s sexy, in every sense. And I think it should be shocking.” Elīna Garanča plays the seductive gypsy of the title in her role debut, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don José.

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