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Conductor: Michel Singher, Director: David
Cox
Set Design: Jean-François Revon, Costume Design: Beth
Gilroy, Lighting Design: Robert Anderson
Act I: A public square in Seville
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Moralès (Daniel Epstein) tells Micaëla (Rebecca
Sjöwall) that Don José will arrive soon. |
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When the factory bell rings, the cigarette girls come out
on their break to the delight of the men of Seville. |
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Carmen (Sarah Barber), the Gypsy, is the center of attention
of everyone except Don José (Benjamin Bongers). |
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Carmen (Sarah Barber) sings of love to Zuniga (Carlos Aguilar),
the Captain of the Dragoons, and the crowd. |
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Carmen (Sarah Barber) entrances the rest of the men, but
Don José (Benjamin Bongers) continues to ignore her. |
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Don José (Benjamin Bongers) is surprised and pleased
that Micaëla (Rebecca Sjöwall) has come with news
of home and a letter from his mother. |
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Zuniga (Carlos Aguilar) tries to calm the crowd after a fight
breaks out in the factory between Carmen and another woman. |
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Don José (Benjamin Bongers) takes Carmen (Sarah Barber)
aside to hear her side of the story. |
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Carmen (Sarah Barber) defies Zuniga (Carlos Aguilar) and
refuses to answer any questions about the fight. |
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Zuniga (Carlos Aguilar) orders Don José (Benjamin
Bongers) to arrest Carmen (Sarah Barber) and to bind her hands. |
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Carmen (Sarah Barber) persuades Don José (Benjamin
Bongers) to help her escape, promising to wait for him at Lillas
Pastia’s bar. |
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When Zuniga (Carlos Aguilar) returns to take her to jail,
Carmen (Sarah Barber) taunts him one last time before revealing
that her hands are no longer restrained. As she escapes, Don
José (Benjamin Bongers) is arrested in her place. |
Act II: Lillas Pastia’s
bar
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Carmen (Sarah Barber) and the other Gypsies sing and dance
at Lillas Pastia’s bar. |
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The famous bullfighter Escamillo (Jason Detwiler) sings of
the love that comes as a result of success in the bullring.
Mercédès (Kindra Scharich) and Frasquita (Shauna
Fallihee) are intrigued, but Carmen (Sarah Barber) is uninterested. |
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Dancaïre (Joaquin Quilez-Marin) and Remendado (Samuel
Read Levine) convince Mercédès (Kondra Scharish)
and Frasquita (Shauna Fallihee) to join in a smuggling operation,
but Carmen (Sarah Barber) insists she must wait for Don José. |
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Carmen (Sarah Barber) dances for Don José (Benjamin
Bongers) in the empty bar. |
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Don José (Benjamin Bongers) tells Carmen (Sarah Barber)
that the flower she threw at him, now dried and faded, sustained
him through the long nights in prison. |
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When Zuniga (Carlos Aguilar) returns and is captured by the
smugglers, Don José (Benjamin Bongers) realizes he has
no choice but to desert and join them. |
Act III: In the mountains
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Mercédès (Kindra Scharich), Frasquita (Shauna
Fallihee), and Carmen (Sarah Barber) tell their fortunes with
a deck of cards, while Don José (Benjamin Bongers) stands
guard. |
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Don José (Benjamin Bongers) is not pleased when Carmen
(Sarah Barber) is intrigued by Escamillo’s (Jason Detwiler)
invitation to the next bullfight in Seville. |
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Before leaving to be with his dying mother, Don José (Benjamin
Bongers) promises Carmen (Sarah Barber) that they will meet
again. |
Act IV: Outside the bullring
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The crowd outside the bullring cheers the arrival of the
bullfighter. |
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Escamillo (Jason Detwiler) and Carmen (Sarah Barber) declare
their love before he enters the bullring. |
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Frasquita (Shauna Fallihee) and Mercédès (Kindra
Scharich) warn Carmen (Sarah Barber) that Don José is
in the crowd, but Carmen refuses to leave. |
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Don José (Benjamin Bongers) appears as Carmen (Sarah
Barber) is about to enter the gates to the bullring. |
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Don José (Benjamin Bongers) pleads with Carmen (Sarah
Barber) to forget the past and start a new life with him, but
Carmen insists that their affair is over; she will live or
die free. |
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As Escamillo and the spectators watch helplessly, Carmen
(Sarah Barber) dies in the arms of Don José (Benjamin
Bongers), her murderer. |
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