The Garden Opera Company rounds off its twentieth-anniversary year with a new, fully-staged English production of Bizet's evergreen tale of the attractive, untameable gypsy of the title, who drives soldier Don José to distraction, playing him off against the bullfighter Escamillo.
This full-blooded production is set against the melting pot of 1920s America. Featuring young and experienced performers: mezzo Charlotte Stephenson (Carmen), tenor Christopher Diffey (Don José), soprano Anne Bourne (Micaëla), bass Adam Green (Escamillo), Alexander Anderson-Hall (Remendado) and Mark Saberton (Dancairo), accompanied by a sextet directed by pianist Peter Bridges.
Directed by Saffron van Zwanenberg; with designers Dulcie Best and Neil Irish. English translation by Amanda Holden and musical arrangement by David Clewlow.