“From abseiling bandits to a hero on horseback, this full-blooded Carmen is intoxicating!” - The Guardian
On Saturday, June 12th, Opus Arte offers cinema music fans the chance to experience The Royal Opera’s acclaimed production of one of opera’s most popular masterpieces, Bizet’s CARMEN at Royal Opera House Covent Garden. CARMEN will be presented at select Landmark Cinemas locations and other select theatres in Canada and the USA.
Bizet’s Carmen is one of those rare operas in which every number seems to be a familiar favourite melody. It is jam-packed with sexy solos, rousing choruses, impassioned arias and Spanish dances. Tuneful, colourful, evocative, dramatic!
The Spanish heat and gypsy passion of Carmen comes to life in Francesca Zambello’s production recreating the sun-drenched and sensual world of 19th-century Spain, with its ranks of soldiers and crowds of peasants, its gypsies and bullfighters, its spectacle and its deadly, white-hot emotions.
At the heart of the story of one woman’s tangled relationship with two men is Carmen herself, played by the fabulous singer-actor Anna Caterina Antonacci. The great Italian soprano is matched by two devilishly handsome men as her love interest; steamingly sexy German tenor, Jonas Kaufmann and the smouldering Italian baritone Ildebrando D’Arcangelo.
“Covent Garden’s new Carmen has it all: bondage, cleavage, animals, acrobats, children and a tenor to die for (which our gypsy heroine does). The staging for all its traditional elements is physical and sexy.” -Evening Standard
“From abseiling bandits to a hero on horseback, this full-blooded Carmen is intoxicating!” - The Guardian
CARMEN was captured before a live audience at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in High Definition: Jan 6, 2007
Tickets will be available at $19.95 + tax per adult, $16.95 + tax per senior and $9.95 + tax per child. For cinema locations and to purchase advance tickets throughout Canada and the USA visit www.digiscreen.ca. For Landmark Cinemas in Alberta and BC, go to www.landmarkcinemas.com. For independent theatres in Vancouver, please visit www.festivalcinemas.ca,
