The Royal Opera - Carmen Reviews | 29 March 2024 |
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CarmenThe Royal OperaNo. 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
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