CARMEN

Ballet

A new ballet production set to the music of Georges Bizet’s opera of the same name, enriched with additional fragments by composers from the sensuous years of Romanticism, offers the ballet troupe of the Ruse Opera a unique opportunity to experiment with the dance techniques of neoclassicism and elements of avant-garde dance. This is a creative, choreographic, and artistic decision that resonates strongly with Bizet’s compositional style and with the dramaturgy of his much-loved opera. Passionate love, consuming jealousy, romantic poetic feeling, mystical beauty, and captivating emotions—the poetic image of Spain from the not-so-distant past pours a vivid emotional tableau into the audience’s fantasies, imagination, and feelings through the power of music and the provocations that are an inseparable part of contemporary dance language. Ballet productions of Carmen based on this musical work frequently appear on the world’s ballet stages. The ballet troupe of the Ruse Opera has created one of the most provocative, one of the most beautiful, and one of the most captivating productions, comparable to world ballet performances from the recent past and the present.

Choreography - Natalia Osipova Set design - Sebastian Malasch Lighting design - Boyan Georgiev

Soloists and ensemble of the Ballet of the State Opera - Ruse