Created by Antonio Gades in collaboration with Carlos Saura, this masterpiece of ballet shows how the power and strength of traditional flamenco are able to express the intense emotions of Merimée’s novel perfectly.
Vanesa Vento plays Carmen, a many-sided character: feminine, passionate, combative and free, inconstant in love and a shameless flirt, inspiring desire, rivalry and jealousy among both men and women. Carmen’s indomitable nature will lead to her doom, when she takes up with her next lover, a bullfighter, and rejects Don José, whose desperation marks a tragic ending.
Inspired on the work by Prosper Merimée
Story, choreography and direction by Antonio Gades and Carlos Saura
Music by Antonio Gades, Antonio Solera, Ricardo Freire, Georges Bizet (Carmen), Manuel Penella (El gato montés) and José Ortega Heredia / Federico García Lorca (Verde que te quiero verde)
Premiered at the Théâtre de Paris on May 17, 1983
Antonio Gades Company
Artistic team
Artistic director | Stella Arauzo
Technical director | Dominique You
Sound | Beatriz Anievas
Lighting technician | Roger Goffinet
Stage manager | Antonio Hidalgo
Costume and props designer | Carmen Sánchez
Cast
Carmen | Vanesa Vento
Don José | Ángel Gil
Marido | Joaquín Mulero
Torero | Jairo Rodríguez
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