La tragédie de Carmen

Adapted from the Georges Bizet's Carmen
by Peter Brook, Marius Constant & Jean-Claude Carrière
February 8 at 8 pm & February 10 at 2 pm, 2013
Rialto Theater - Broadway Center for the Performing Arts

With our very own resident Tacoma Opera Orchestra

In 1981, Peter Brook, the renowned British stage director, adapted Bizet's famous opera and stripped it to its essential dramatic core. The famous 90 minute production, originally presented at a small rundown theater in Paris, created a sensation in the world of opera and changed the way opera was perceived by the general public. Doing away with the artifice and grandiosity so prevalent in conventional opera, Brook created a realistic work that strikes at the senses and clutches at the heart. Watch Carmen and Don Jose challenge each other in an ultimate game of seduction, love and death. Feel the passion, experience the drama and grasp the core essence of Bizet's unforgettable masterpiece as never before.