Carmen | 2025

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2025

Georges Bizet

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Franco Zeffirelli's Seville returns with its colours and scents to seduce us at the Arena di Verona. A behemoth of timeless charm, with captivating music by Georges Bizet and an arresting heroine. 

Location

Arena di Verona

Director

Franco Zeffirelli

Language

French

Show type

Opera

Libretto

Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy

Subtitles

Italian, English

Music

Georges Bizet

Duration

Approx. 3 h 20 min, including 2 intervals

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Cast

Direction and set design

Franco Zeffirelli

Costumes

Anna Anni

Lights

Paolo Mazzon

Coreografia

El Camborio

Conductor

Francesco Ivan Ciampa

Children's Choir

A.LI.VE.

Conductor

Paolo Facincani

Dance Company

Compañía Antonio Gades

Orchestra, Coro, Ballo e Tecnici

Fondazione Arena di Verona

Chorus Master

Roberto Gabbiani

Dance Company Coordinator

Gaetano Petrosino

Director of stage design

Michele Olcese

Interpreters

Carmen

Aigul Akhmetshina 04/07 14/08 23/08 29/08 03/09

Alisa Kolosova 12/07 26/07

Anita Rachvelishvili 18/07

Micaela

Aleksandra Kurzak 04/07

Mariangela Sicilia 12/07 18/07 26/07 23/08 29/08 03/09

Daniela Schillaci 14/08

Frasquita

Daniela Cappiello 04/07 12/07 18/07 26/07 14/08 23/08 29/08 03/09

Mercédès

Sofia Koberidze 04/07 12/07 18/07 26/07 14/08 23/08 29/08 03/09

Don Josè

Roberto Alagna 04/07

Francesco Meli 12/07 03/09

Yusif Eyvazov 18/07 26/07

Piotr Beczała 14/08

Freddie De Tommaso 23/08

Paolo Lardizzone 29/08

Escamillo

Erwin Schrott 04/07 23/08

Luca Micheletti 12/07 18/07 26/07 14/08

Giorgi Manoshvili 29/08 03/09

Dancairo

Jan Antem 04/07 12/07 18/07 26/07 14/08 23/08 29/08 03/09

Remendado

Carlo Bosi 04/07 12/07 18/07 26/07 14/08

Vincent Ordonneau 23/08 29/08 03/09

Zuniga

Gabriele Sagona 04/07 12/07 18/07 26/07 14/08 23/08 29/08 03/09

Morales

Giulio Mastrototaro 04/07 12/07 18/07 26/07 14/08 23/08 29/08 03/09

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