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Carmen–Reimagined is presented in 3 parts, with 20 minute intervals, with a total running time of approximately 2 and half hours. The opera is sung in French, with English dialogue.

Join us this May for the first show in our inaugeral Regal Opera Festival.

In this intimate version of Bizet's Carmen, scored for four voices with piano accompaniment and a new English script by Director Bronwen Stephens-Harding, Rogue Opera presents a compact production re-imagined to bring you the essence of the story, the complexities of the characters and the beauty of the music.

Synopsis
Bizet’s Carmen is more than just a grand spectacle or operatic tragedy. Bizet broke operatic convention by celebrating proletarian and immoral ways of life, vividly bringing to life the character of Carmen as a complex, proud and spirited woman.

Rogue Opera strips away the pomp and pageantry to present a raw and intimate piece of theatre, examining the human emotions at the core of this tale of seduction, obsession, rejection and revenge.

Carmen and the gypsies seek a bohemian life, finding freedom outside of the law. José, drawn to Carmen, is torn between love, duty and honour. Micaëla, innocent and pious, represents a simpler way of life, and the charismatic bullfighter Escamillo soon becomes a rival for Carmen’s affections. The dramatic resolution of the opera’s story was shocking and unconventional in depicting such violence at its premiere in 1875. Just as shocking is that this tragedy is still pertinent today, where the simple act of saying ‘no’ too often turns love and passion into abuse and fatal revenge.