the novella by Prosper Mérimée
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Production
Revival Director
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Assistant Conductor
Musical Preparation
Banda
Diction
Supertitles
Assistant Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Dance Master
Fight Director
Costume Supervisor
Wig and Makeup
Cast
Lillas Pastia
Moralès
Micaëla
Zuniga
Manuelita
Carmen
Don José
Girl
Frasquita
Mercédès
Escamillo
El Dancairo
El Remendado
Torero
Show Dates
Broadcast
10/4/2016 delayed broadcast, KDFC; 10/8/2016 WFMT
Time and Place
Modern-day Ceuta (autonomous Spanish city in North Africa)
Scenes
Media
Sponsors
Maestro Montanaro's appearance is made possible by the Conductors Fund, and Mr. Jagde's appearance is made possible by the Emerging Stars Fund, both established by Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem.
John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn are proud to support this production.
Additional support is provided by Affiliate Sponsors Dianne & Tad Taube.
Special thanks to Janet Migliore of MB Garage in San Mateo for assistance with the six vintage Mercedes-Benz cars seen in this production.
San Francisco Opera partners with the San Francisco Giants and presenting sponsor Taube Philanthropies for Opera at the Ballpark—a free live simulcast of Georges Bizet’s Carmen—on Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.
Legacy Commission
Sung in French with English supertitles
Notes
10/4/2016 delayed broadcast, KDFC; 10/8/2016 WFMT
San Francisco Opera co-production with Boston Lyric Opera, based on Calixto Bieito's production which originated at El Festival de Peralada in Catalonia and Opera Zuid in the Netherlands.
Assistant Stage Managers: Sarah Bingel, Jimmy Marcheso, Andrew Landis, Gina Hays.
Soldiers, children, cigarette girls, Gypsies, smugglers
The children singing in this production are members of the San Francisco Girls and Boys Choruses. The San Francisco Girls Chorus is led by Artistic Directory Lisa Bielawa and Music Director and Principal Conductor Valérie Sainte-Agathe. The San Francisco Boys Chorus is led by Artistic Director Ian Robertson.
Children's Chorus: Lukas Bacho, Maia Brockstedt, Zoe Brunsdon, Ethan Chen, Zora Day-Friedland, Dominic De Quattro, Benjamin Dyer, Sasha Feldman, Winter Felton-Priestner, Kaia Garcia-Vandegrift, Ava Gaughan, Teodoro Gnass, Pietro Juvara, Ivan Kiryakin, Isabella Lopez, Carmen Miller, Lydia Milstein, Daniel Ostrom, Anni Robinson, Anabel Rubin, Christopher Salinas, Eliana Schiller, Alexander Tafapolsky, Mark Urdan, Adrian Vasquez, Phoebe Wells, Rowan Whitney, Dylan Zorn.
**June 17, 2016 performance: Child Saarika Gunapu became ill during Act I and was unable to perform. Her cover, Amalia Abecassis, was called in and she performed the role of Mercedes’ daughter for the entirety of this evening’s performance.
Additional Notes
June 17, 2016 performance: Child Saarika Gunapu became ill during Act I and was unable to perform. Her cover, Amalia Abecassis, was called in and she performed the role of Mercedes’ daughter for the entirety of this evening’s performance.