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Georges Bizet: CarmenSemi-staged opera performance in collaboration with the West Michigan Opera Project
Like the composers on our fall program, Georges Bizet died very young – just 36 – and only a few months after the premiere of his magnum opus, Carmen. He saw only his work’s first troubled performances in Paris, racked with scandal because the topic and music of the opera seemed so new, so incomprehensible at the time. But after he passed, Carmen went on to great acclaim at opera houses around the world, and soon became – as Tchaikovsky, an early admirer, foretold – arguably the most famous opera ever written. The verité grittiness of the story, full of soldiers, thieves, cigarette factory laborers; the disastrous (if compulsively watchable) choices of the male protagonist, Don José; the seductive qualities of Carmen, precisely because of her complete disregard for societal niceties; and, of course, the picaresque, effortlessly melodic music of Bizet: all of these combine to create one of the most arresting dramas ever created, one whose influence was felt in almost every opera that followed.
General Admission tickets are available at the door and cost $7 for adults, $3 for students, and are free for K College students. We can also now accept CC payments!
In addition, there is a second (free) performance on May 17th at 7 pm in Grand Rapids at Fountain Street Church:
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
First United Methodist Church of Kalamazoo, 224 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI 49007-4626, United States,Kalamazoo, Michigan
