CARMEN
18th-21st May 2011
Bob Hope Theatre, Wythfield Road, Eltham
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| Initially a failure when it opened in Paris in 1875, Bizet’s Carmen went on to not only inspire a whole new type of opera based on ‘realism’ but also to become one of the most popular and regularly performed operas ever written. So, why the initial hostility to it? It was that very realism of the story with an amoral gipsy femme fatale at its heart which polite society found offensive. Smouldering passion and sexuality had rarely been depicted in opera before and certainly not in an opera comique which traditionally had light and sentimental plots. The story is simple and is as much about the young soldier, Don Jose as it is about Carmen. Cast aside as her lover for the bull fighter, Escamillo, Jose madly follows a path which will lead both to his own and Carmen’s destruction. |
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| Forthcoming Concerts |
| 09 Oct 2010 at 7.30pm |
Carlton Centre
Carlton Road
Sidcup
DA14 6AH |
020 8304 5985 |
| 10 Oct 2010 at 3.00pm |
Carlton Centre
Carlton Road
Sidcup
DA14 6AH |
020 8304 5985 |
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