Carmen - Manitoba Opera

Opera’s favourite bad girl is back in town and sparks will fly.

A sensational story filled with seduction, jealousy, and deceit.

The Synopsis

The soldier Don José falls in love with Carmen, the Gypsy temptress, and allows her to escape as he takes her to prison. In order to be with her, José deserts his regiment, his sweetheart, and even his dying mother and joins her band of smugglers. As his life crumbles, Carmen begins to tire of him and her wandering glance turns to the swaggering bullfighter. Her fate is sealed when José, wracked with jealousy, realizes she will never be his. This passionate, tragic tale features one of opera’s most intriguing characters, the sensuous cigarette girl who tempts fate when she spurns her lover for a celebrated matador.

Sung in French with English translations projected above the stage.

Music by Georges Bizet
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Directed by Rob Herriot
Conducted by Tyrone Paterson

Our Land Acknowledgement:

Manitoba Opera is located upon, and operates within, Treaty #1 territory, the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Anisininew, Dakota, and Dene peoples’ traditional lands and waters and the Red River Métis Nation homelands.

As water nourishes the land and all it gives us, we also acknowledge that the source of the City of Winnipeg’s water is from Shoal Lake, the home and shared territory of Iskatewizaagegan No. 39 Independent Nation and Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.

In view of such understandings and acknowledgments, Manitoba Opera remains committed to working in partnership with the Indigenous peoples in the spirit of truth, reconciliation, and collaboration.

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(Lower Level, Centennial Concert Hall)
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