The Royal Opera - Carmen Reviews
29 March 2024
Anna Goryachova (Carmen), Ensemble
Francesco Meli (Don Jose), Kristina Mkhitaryan (Micaela)
Kostas Smoriginas (Escamillo), Ensemble
General Scene
Anna Goryachova (Carmen), Francesco Meli (Don Jose)

Performance reviews

Key Photo gallery Production details Video link
Carmen

The Royal Opera


No. of reviews: 20

Musicological melange: Barrie Kosky's production of Carmen at the Royal Opera
12 Mar 18 / Planet Hugill
Anna Goryachova beguilingly stares down the camera for Royal Opera’s Carmen in cinemas
12 Mar 18 / Seen and Heard
Carmen entre Zefirelli y Kosky
20 Feb 18 / Mundo Clásico (Spanish)
A production that achieves what it sets out to do
20 Feb 18 / Express
Kosky's Carmen fails to light fires at Covent Garden
16 Feb 18 / Bachtrack
A colossal bore
15 Feb 18 / The Spectator
Barrie Kosky’s innovations are always worth seeing, but this does not have the punch of other productions
14 Feb 18 / Mark Ronan's Theatre Reviews
Barrie Kosky's Spanish steps
13 Feb 18 / The Critics' Circle
Performers enjoy a nightly workout in Barrie Kosky’s refreshing if flawed new Royal Opera production
12 Feb 18 / The Observer
Barrie Kosky's Carmen at Covent Garden
9 Feb 18 / Opera Today
Barrie Kosky’s Carmen for the Royal Opera is a tedious affair
9 Feb 18 / Seen and Heard
Carmen is monochrome and magnificent at Royal Opera House
9 Feb 18 / Londonist
A wake-up call met with boos and cheers
9 Feb 18 / Financial Times
Tausche Troubadour gegen Carmen
8 Feb 18 / Deutschland Radio
It’s vaudeville filtered through a very Germanic theatre of the absurd
8 Feb 18 / Classical Source
Anna Goryachova as Carmen deploys her mezzo voice like a weapon of war
8 Feb 18 / Independent
Bizet meets Busby Berkeley
8 Feb 18 / The Guardian
Barrie Kosky puts fun and games centre-stage in Bizet's fierce romance
8 Feb 18 / What's on Stage
Barrie Kosky’s radical, heartless, if sometimes brilliantly theatrical, staging of Bizet’s opera
8 Feb 18 / The Stage
Love it or hate it, this isn't just another Carmen
8 Feb 18 / Telegraph
Production details
Cast
Nagy/Sedgwick, Goryachova/Arquez, Meli/Carè, Smoriginas/Markov, Mkhitaryan/Hurrell, Soar/Shipley, Stucker/Lee, Charvet/Akhmetshina, Doyen, Fouchécourt
(c) Hrusa/Willis (d) Kosky
Performance dates
6, 10, 14, 16(m), 20, 23, 27 February, 3, 6, 8, 12, 16 March 2018
Trending reviews
1.
Erwartung

Teatro Real, Madrid

2.
La Gioconda

Salzburg Easter Festival

3.
La Gioconda

Salzburg Easter Festival

4.
West Side Story

Opera Australia

5.
La Gioconda

Salzburg Easter Festival