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The Tragedy of Carmen

Oct 11, 2019

07:30 PM

Coralville Center for the Performing Arts,

1301 5th Street, Coralville, IA 52241

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The Tragedy of Carmen

Score by George Bizet
Adapted by Peter Brook, Jean-Clause Carriere & Marius Constant
Sung in French with English Supertitles

Directed by Bill Theisen
Conducted by Wayne Wyman

October 11 & 12 at 7:30 PM
October 13 at 2:00 PM

Coralville Center for the Performing Arts

Carmen is a sizzling seductress, but play with her and you will get burned. Naïve young soldier Don Jose falls for her, leaving his homespun sweetheart Micaela, in pursuit of crime and lust with Carmen and her gang. But when Carmen callously drops him for Escamillo the strutting bullfighter, jealousy ignites and Don Jose is pushed to the brink. Passions intensify into an emotional bonfire that threatens to destroy them all.

Peter Brook’s gripping adaptation brings Bizet’s opera back to its origins of sexual intrigue, power and complexity. In this tightly wound one act version, Carmen’s embrace of her dark fate is elevated from an act of submission to an assertion of power.

“A truly transcendent experience…fusing opera and musical theatre as never before with thrilling results.”
-New York Times

TICKETS FOR OPERA
$20 Adults
$15 Seniors (65+)
$10 Students & Youth
$5 UI Students (with valid ID)

Opera tickets are available through the Hancher Box Office at 319.335.1160 or 1.800.HANCHER, or www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets.

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