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Creating Carmen

Reading of a brand new "play meets concert"

Part of the Stroud Green Festival 2019 Festival

Add to my Calendar 23-06-2019 20:00 23-06-2019 22:00 36 Creating Carmen Meet the colourful writer Prosper Mérimée, whose novella Carmen was the basis for Bizet’s opera. Renowned for his myriad love affairs, in creating the character of Carmen, he finds this time he has bitten off rather more than he can chew.... Mérimée's experiences will be intertwined with music from Bizet's Carmen and Spanish or Spanish-inspired music by Boccherini, da Falla, Granados, Ravel, Delibes and Albeniz in arrangements by exciting young trio Carmen Co. "What is most impressive about Norburn's conception is the way various strata and elements combine and cohere so effortlessly. Past and present, truth and fantasy, real and imagined, come together in a tightly knit and intimate drama" Opera Today Carmen CoEmily Andrew mezzo/fluteFrancisco Correa & David Massey guitarsNicholas Renton director Actor tbc Holy Trinity Church Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Holy Trinity Church Hall
Stapleton Hall Road
Stroud Green
London
N4 4QA
England

Programme

Georges Bizet – Carmen

Performers

CarmenCo

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Programme Note

Meet the colourful writer Prosper Mérimée, whose novella Carmen was the basis for Bizet’s opera. Renowned for his myriad love affairs, in creating the character of Carmen, he finds this time he has bitten off rather more than he can chew....

Mérimée's experiences will be intertwined with music from Bizet's Carmen and Spanish or Spanish-inspired music by Boccherini, da Falla, Granados, Ravel, Delibes and Albeniz in arrangements by exciting young trio Carmen Co.

"What is most impressive about Norburn's conception is the way various strata and elements combine and cohere so effortlessly. Past and present, truth and fantasy, real and imagined, come together in a tightly knit and intimate drama" Opera Today

Carmen Co
Emily Andrew mezzo/flute
Francisco Correa & David Massey guitars
Nicholas Renton director 
Actor tbc

Carmen Co

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