Georges Bizet's "Carmen" will be on stage in a new French production at Staatsoper, Hamburg from February 7-April 16, 2019.The original libretto of Bizet's four act opera was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy based on Prosper Merimee's novella of the same name."Carmen," was first performed in Paris in 1875 by the Opera-Comique where its subject matter of breaking conventions scandalized and took audiences b…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 06:34AM on January 22, 2019