Arena di Verona Festival 2022: Carmen

Synopsis

After many worldwide successes as Carmen, Elīna Garanča now makes her long-awaited debut on the world’s largest opera stage, the nearly 2,000-year-old Arena di Verona. “With perfect diction, [Elīna Garanča’s] bohemian is a true stage beast who makes a mockery of life with panache, taunting her lover just out of prison with sarcastic ‘taratata’ and then daring to face an adverse fate with implausible aplomb.” (Crescendo-Magazine.be). Italian film and stage director Franco Zeffirelli also made his debut at the Arena back then with Carmen. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, his three versions were put together for the first time in a “best of” version. The side set painted for the first edition and the large number of people and wide movements that characterized the original production are set back on stage. Highlights of the 2003 and 2009 stagings are skillfully combined with this. The 2022 production is hence something never seen before, which even proposes scenography’s elements that haven’t been realized in the previous stagings, but were originally planned by Zeffirelli.

Additional Info

• No: A00050094
• Composer: Georges Bizet
• Conductor: Marco Armiliato
• Orchestra: Arena di Verona Orchestra
• Artists: Elīna Garanča, Brian Jagde, Claudio Sgura, Maria Teresa Leva, Coro dell’Arena di Verona
• Production year: 2022
• Run time: 02:54:00
• Director: Stage Director: Franco Zeffirelli
• Producers: Unitel, ZDF, 3sat, Fondazione Arena di Verona
• Format: 4K