“Carmen” is a ballet flamenco show that combines the intensity of flamenco with the magic of Bizet’s opera.
A group of talented dancers performs the iconic characters of Carmen and Don José through powerful flamenco dance. The dancers are accompanied by a live orchestra, choir and soloists. With their elegance and expressiveness, the artists transport the audience to
the vibrant atmosphere of 19th-century Spain. This show blends the passion and fire of flamenco with the musical richness of Bizet’s opera, creating a unique and thrilling experience for lovers of dance and music. An unforgettable evening filled with passion, drama, and top-notch flamenco art.
This new recreation of Bizet’s work brings new elements from flamenco that were previously unknown. It goes beyond the traditional conception in which it has historically been categorised and adapts it to the reality of today’s contemporary society. The values for which Carmen is today a woman of our time and the adaptation of flamenco music and ballet with the distinctive stamp that characte- rises David Gutierrez, places the work in a new paradigm of the universal myth and flamenco of the 21st century.
“Carmen” is a fusion show. A combination of opera and flamenco. An austere space with the orchestra as great scenery and a coming and going of singers and dancers who, between ruffle dresses and tap dance, reveal the destiny of the protagonist.
Carmen is pain, passion and a cry for freedom, feelings that flamenco art and opera masterfully represents in its wildest and most primitive aspect. Barcelona Flamenco Ballet (BFB), with the collaboration of a local orchestra, choir and soloists, tells the story written by Prosper Mérimée delving into the love affair between Carmen the gypsy and Escamillo the bullfighter. Here, too, the flamenco and opera languages are the best vehicles of artistic expression to exhibit emotions and is the perfect driving force to convey the passion of the protagonists.
In this show, BFB collaborates with a symphony orchestra, choir and soloists. The show mixes the most current flamenco singing with the original music. The symphony orchestra, the operatic singing and Bizet’s music mix their more traditional sonorities with innovative touches of jazz and flamenco singing. The choreographies fuse the universes of flamenco ballet with impressive footwork and fresh influences of modern and contemporary dance.
The characters of Mérimée, Bizet’s music, BFB’s flamenco and the symphony orchestra art merge into a show open to
the public today. Lovers of the opera, flamenco, dance, music, theatre and the performing arts in general will discover a new aesthetic bench mark in this Carmen, where the mix of cultures and sensibilities will open the doors to the art of the 21st century.
