Deutsche Oper Berlin: Carmen

With his CARMEN, Georges Bizet wrote a declaration of war on romantic opera: with her unbending desire for freedom, the title heroine embodies the counter image to the passive, suffering female figures who had previously dominated the opera stage. But CARMEN is anti-romantic in an even more comprehensive sense: Bizet's opera shows a world in which love as an interpersonal feeling no longer has a place and has long since been replaced by sex and violence. Carmen and the torero Escamillo are representatives of this society in which only the right of the strongest counts. A world in which Don José, with his bourgeois ideal of love, remains a stranger doomed to failure.

With this illusionless look at the desolation of human existence, Bizet stands in close proximity to the novels of Emile Zola - contrary to the clichéd image of many performances, Bizet's Spain is a place that shows the ugliness of poverty in bright light.

get2 - Dates

In French language with German and English surtitles
3 hours 15 minutes / A break
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the rank foyer on the right


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