Career highlights include Alfredo ( La traviata) at New York City Opera and Slovak National Theatre, The Duke ( Rigoletto) at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Slovak National Theater, and Theater Bremen, Rodolfo ( La bohème) at Mannheim National Theatre, New York City Opera, and Manitoba Opera, Hoffmann ( The Tales of Hoffman) at Teatro Di San Carlo, Staatstheater Mainz, and Hawaii Opera Theatre, Don José ( Carmen) at Arizona Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria, and Opernfestspiele St Margarethen, the title role in Faust at Opera Wrocławska, Pinkerton ( Madama Butterfly) at Utah Opera, Opera Saratoga, and Austin Lyric Opera, the title role in Werther at Staatstheater Braunschweig and Opera Zuid, Mitch ( A Streetcar Named Desire) at Teatro Colón, and Prince ( A Flowering Tree) at Göteborgsoperan.ĭon José, Viktor Antipenko (Saturday, September 24 performance only) Future engagements include Musetta ( La bohème) with Seattle Opera, Donna Elvira ( Don Giovanni) with Teatro Petruzzelli, and her debut with Grange Park Opera as Charlotte ( Werther).Įric Fennell makes his Lyric Opera of Kansas City debut singing Don José in Carmen. Other notable performances include Despina ( Così fan tutte) with Opéra national de Paris, the title role in Carmen with San Diego Opera, San Francisco Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, and New National Theatre, Tokyo, Dorabella ( Così fan tutte) with Seattle Opera and Opéra national de Paris, and Angelina ( Cinderella) for Seattle Opera. Understand every word: Performed in French with English subtitles.Ī regular at The Metropolitan Opera, Ginger Costa Jackson has performed Rosina ( The Barber of Seville), Lola ( Cavalleria Rusticana) and Smeton ( Anna Bolena). LIBRETTO Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac Fueled by jealousy and obsession, Don José tracks her down and confronts her at a bullfight, where we’ll find out if she has one last trick up her sleeve. But their budding romance ends as abruptly as it started when Carmen takes up with a bullfighter named Escamillo. So powerful and potent is Carmen’s beauty and passion that he impulsively leaves behind a career in uniform and follows her into a new life among her people: smugglers and fortune-tellers. We meet Carmen as the soon-to-be-smitten soldier, Don José, is arresting her.

In one of the most popular operas of all time , Bizet’s free-spirited femme fatale, Carmen, is the kind of woman your mother warned you about. Mack the Knife is the Man I Love: A Weill-Gershwin Cabaret.

Carmen at the metropolitan opera