Bizet's Carmen
Northern Ireland Opera will bring to life the powerful story of Carmen, a passionate, intelligent woman who dares to challenge convention, pursuing seduction, love and her freedom.
Directed by Artistic Director Cameron Menzies, this grand-scale production marks the national company’s first-time staging of Bizet’s definitive work at Belfast’s Grand Opera House in September. This visceral story of passion and defiance is viewed through a contemporary lens to illuminate its deep relevance today.
Bizet's Carmen
Northern Ireland Opera will bring to life the powerful story of Carmen, a passionate, intelligent woman who dares to challenge convention, pursuing seduction, love and her freedom.
Directed by Artistic Director Cameron Menzies, this grand-scale production marks the national company’s first-time staging of Bizet’s definitive work at Belfast’s Grand Opera House in September. This visceral story of passion and defiance is viewed through a contemporary lens to illuminate its deep relevance today.
Bizet’s Carmen
Northern Ireland Opera will bring to life the powerful story of Carmen, a passionate, intelligent woman who dares to challenge convention, pursuing seduction, love and her freedom.
Directed by Artistic Director Cameron Menzies, this grand-scale production marks the national company’s first-time staging of Bizet’s definitive work at Belfast’s Grand Opera House in September. This visceral story of passion and defiance is viewed through a contemporary lens to illuminate its deep relevance today.
Bizet’s Carmen
Northern Ireland Opera will bring to life the powerful story of Carmen, a passionate, intelligent woman who dares to challenge convention, pursuing seduction, love and her freedom.
Directed by Artistic Director Cameron Menzies, this grand-scale production marks the national company’s first-time staging of Bizet’s definitive work at Belfast’s Grand Opera House in September. This visceral story of passion and defiance is viewed through a contemporary lens to illuminate its deep relevance today.
Llangollen 80: 80th Anniversary Gala Concert
Llangollen 80: 80th Anniversary Gala Concert
Featuring Sir Bryn Terfel, Natalya Romaniw and Noah Stewart
The Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod celebrates its 80th anniversary with a spectacular evening bringing together some of the finest voices in opera alongside the rich choral traditions for which Wales is renowned.
Internationally acclaimed soloists Sir Bryn Terfel, Natalya Romaniw and Noah Stewart will perform with orchestra and massed male voice choirs in a concert specially created to celebrate eight decades of music, friendship and international understanding.
The programme will combine operatic favourites, great choral works and specially curated collaborations, reflecting both the Eisteddfod’s remarkable history and its continuing place on the international cultural stage.
As one of the centrepiece events of the anniversary celebrations, this promises to be an unforgettable evening featuring some of the world’s finest vocal talent.
Tickets will be available to Friends of the festival from Tuesday 28 July, with general sale from Friday 31 July.
However, you can sign up now for exclusive pre-sale access, which will mean you can buy your tickets online from Wednesday 29 July, ahead of general sale from Friday 31 July. Just visit this link to register for the presale: Llangollen80 pre-sale
Bizet’s Camen in Concert with The National Symphony Orchestra.
Bizet’s Carmen comes to irresistible life in this concert performance with Natalia Kutateladze – whose ‘sheer style and poise sets her in a class of her own’ (The Guardian) – as the free-spirited femme fatale.
Acclaimed by Tchaikovsky as ‘a masterpiece in every sense of the word’, 150 years after its controversial premiere, Carmen still has the power to shock with the torrid passion at its heart and the seductive sensuality of its music.
One of all opera’s most lyrical and memorable scores includes the sultry Habanera, rousing ‘Toreador Song’, and irresistible Seguidilla.
Rising star Irish soprano Sarah Brady sings the peasant girl, Micaëla; Noah Stewart, ‘the most talked-about young American tenor these days’ (Ars Atlanta), is the murderous Don José; GyulaNagy, a ‘giant of a baritone’ (The Arts Desk), the handsome toreador Escamillo.
National Symphony Chorus Ireland and Cór na nÓg join forces to bring the thronging bystanders to vivid life.
Pre-concert Talk
Kevin Barry Room, 6.15pm
Join Deirdre O'Grady, NCH Friend's Opera Course Director and Professor of Italian & Comparative Studies at UCD. The talk will focus on how the figure of Carmen encapsulates an age of socio-political, literary and musical transition from a romantic to realist vision of society. She provides an image of a new working woman in a cigarette factory who smokes, stabs and shocks, heralding Verismo opera before the age of Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Puccini and Cilea. A new world in which contrasts, opposites and conflicts coexist through Bizet’s new musical vision. Carmen - an opera for all seasons.
Presented by NCH