A co-production between Boston Lyric Opera and San Francisco Opera
Music by Georges Bizet
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Production: Calixto Bieito
Revival Director: Joan Anton Rechi
Scenic Design: Alfons Flores

Sung in French with English supertitles

The 2016/17 season launches in September with the bicoastal American premiere of Calixto Bieito’s cinematic Carmen in a co-production with San Francisco Opera – opening May 2016 – marking the director’s long-awaited U.S. opera debut. Set in the arid earthiness of post-Franco Spain, this is a powerful account of a defiantly free-spirited woman and her obsessive lover. Jennifer Johnson Cano, critically acclaimed for her star turn in last year’s Don Giovanni, returns to Boston as the fiery, seductive gypsy who destroys the naïve soldier Don José, played by Roger Honeywell. Michael Mayes and Chelsea Basler return to BLO, and BLO Music Director David Angus conducts.