SAN FRANCISCO OPERA PRODUCTION

GEORGES BIZET

Carmen has bewitched audiences since its premiere with its colorful, passionate score pulsating with Gypsy rhythms, its shocking dénouement and its sexually powerful title character, opera’s ultimate femme fatale.

THE SCENE
In and around Seville, in the 1800s

THE STORY
Corporal Don José deserts his fiancée and his regiment to run off with the bewitching Gypsy, Carmen. But the lady is as fickle as she is alluring and shifts her affections to the dashing toreador Escamillo. In the shadows outside Seville’s bull-ring, Carmen meets her fate in the form of Don José’s knife blade, while inside the crowd cheers Escamillo’s victory.

*San Francisco Opera debut

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