CARMEN • Arena di Verona | June 23, 2023
Arena di Verona Piazza Bra, 1, Verona, (VR), ItalyCARMEN: Friday, June 23, 2023 at 9:15 p.m., Opera Festival Arena di Verona 2023 with premium tickets for the Summer Music Festival Verona.
The opera Carmen was composed by Georges Bizet in four acts. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. The story is based on the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée
Carmen premiered in Paris in 1875 without much success. Georges Bizet did not experience the international breakthrough since he died in 1875, a few months after the premiere at the age of 36.
Today Carmen is one of the most popular and most frequently performed operas in the world.
Verona is world famous for the Opera Festival in the Arena di Verona, which attracts millions of music lovers every summer. The Arena di Verona is the world’s largest open-air opera theatre with space for up to 22,000 spectators on the steps of the 45 rows of seats.
Every year we create exclusive music trips to Italy for friends of opera and ballet. Operas of the leading Italian composers Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini and Gioachino Rossini are favourite in the Arena. Enjoy the extraordinary atmosphere at the Roman amphitheatre in the heart of Verona in the summer months under the open sky. Please make your travel plans early and select a performance of interest. Because, if there are less than two months to go, the best tickets might be sold out, the hotels might have increased prices and things may become difficult. With our music tours you get the best seats, on upholstered chairs, together with a nice stay program in Verona.
The opera Carmen was composed in four acts by Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. The story is based on the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée
Carmen premiered in Paris in 1875 without much success. Georges Bizet did not live to see his international breakthrough, as he died in 1875, a few months after the premiere, at the age of 36.
Today Carmen is one of the most popular and most frequently performed operas in the world.
The action of the opera Carmen takes place in Andalusia, mainly in Seville.
It’s about seduction and love, about jealousy and dashed hope.
The guard Don José falls in love with the gypsy Carmen, although his mother wants him to marry the orphan Micaëla. The beautiful smuggler Carmen promises Don José hot nights of love. When Carmen has to go to prison because of an argument at the factory, Don José helps Carmen escape from prison and has to do it himself.
The bullfighter Escamillo is also in love with Carmen. Destiny takes its course and in the end the disappointed Don José stabs Carmen.
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CARMEN: Friday, June 23, 2023 at 9:15 p.m., Opera Festival Arena di Verona 2023 with premium tickets for the Summer Music Festival Verona.
CARMEN: Friday, July 06, 2023 at 9:00 p.m., Opera Festival Arena di Verona 2023 with premium tickets for the Summer Music Festival Verona.
CARMEN: Friday, August 11, 2023 at 8:45 p.m., Opera Festival Arena di Verona 2023 with premium tickets for the Summer Music Festival Verona.
CARMEN: August 24, 2023 at 9:00 p.m., Opera Festival Arena di Verona 2023 with premium tickets for the Summer Music Festival Verona.
CARMEN: September 06, 2023 at 9:00 p.m., Opera Festival Arena di Verona 2023 with premium tickets for the Summer Music Festival Verona.
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