Support the new production of Bizet’s opera
Join the fundraising campaign for the new production of Carmen
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100 euro
- Acknowledgement on the Milano per la Scala website
- Invitation to the rehearsal and lecture
4.000 euro
- Acknowledgement on Milano per la Scala website
- Invitation to the rehearsal and lecture
- Your name will appear on the acknowledgement page in the programme.
- Two complimentary tickets to a performance of the show (excluding the premiere)
10.000 euro
- Acknowledgement on the Milano per la Scala website
- Invitation to the rehearsal and in-depth meeting
- Your name will appear on the acknowledgement page in the programme.
- Two complimentary tickets to the premiere and invitation to a reception with the artists
Invitation to the production's press conference
Fundraising goal
100.000 €
Milano per la Scala thanks
Fimesa and the Sordi family in memory of Roberto and Silvio Preti
OVERVIEW
The next Music Director of the Teatro alla Scala, Myung-Whun Chung, reaches his eleventh opera title at La Scala (having conducted over 140 concerts both at home and on tour) with this new production of Bizet’s Carmen, a co-production with London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Madrid’s Teatro Real.
Well-versed in French music—also through his work with the Opéra Bastille and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France—Chung leads a cast that is perfectly idiomatic. Alongside Clémentine Margaine in the title role, alternating with Stéphanie d’Oustrac, and Giorgi Manoshvili as Escamillo, the production features Vittorio Grigolo as Don José—a major Italian voice with a strong affinity for the French repertoire— alternating with Matthew Polenzani. Damiano Michieletto and set designer Paolo Fantin reduce local colour to a minimum in order to construct a bare and effective spectacle, focused on the ineluctable fate of the protagonists.
Carmen
Opéra-comique in four acts
Libretto by Prosper Mérimée
Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus
Treble Voices Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala Academy
Teatro alla Scala New Production
Co-production with Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Teatro Real, Madrid
| Conductor | MYUNG-WHUN CHUNG |
| Staging | DAMIANO MICHIELETTO |
| Sets | PAOLO FANTIN |
| Costumes | CARLA TETI |
| Lights | ALESSANDRO CARLETTI |
Cast
| Don José | Vittorio Grigolo (8, 12, 16, 22, 25 e 27 giu.) / Matthew Polenzani (10, 18, 20 e 23 giu.) |
| Escamillo | Giorgi Manoshvili (8, 12, 16, 22, 25 e 27 giu.) / Nicolas Courjal (10, 18, 20 e 23 giu.) |
| Le Dancaïre | Pierre Doyen |
| Le Remendado | Loïc Félix |
| Carmen | Clémentine Margaine (8, 12, 16, 22 e 25 giu.) / Stéphanie d’Oustrac (10, 18, 20, 23 e 27 giu.) |
| Micaëla | Slávka Zámečníková |
| Mercédès | Marine Chagnon |
| Frasquita | Sarah Dufresne |
