• Event: Carmen

    This event has already taken place.

    Start Date: 26.06.2019. Start Time: 18:00

    End Date: 26.06.2019. End Time: 23:00

    Location: Wandsworth Civic Suite, Wandsworth High St, London

    We are delighted to work alongside Rogue Opera to celebrate our 30th anniversary with Bizet's opera Carmen.

    We invite you to join us at the Wandsworth Town Hall Civic Suite on Wednesday 26th June 2019 from 6pm. There will be a paid bar and of course one of our famous tombolas, Spanish themed!

    Bizet's Carmen is one of the most popular and familiar operas, with it's music and characters known well outside the genre. But it is more than just a grand spectacle or operatic tragedy. When Bizet created Carmen from the short story by Prosper Merrimee, he broke operatic convention by celebrating proletarian and immoral ways of life. He also vividly brought to life the character of Carmen (almost a side note in the original text) as a complex, proud and spirited women who strove at every turn to claim independence and agency in her life, love and friendships.

    Rogue Opera strips away the pomp and pageantry to present a raw and intimate piece of theatre, examining the power dynamics between people and social classes, through this tale of seduction, obsession, rejection and revenge, heightened by Bizet's captivating music.

    https://www.wandsworthoasis.org.uk/Event/bizets-carmen

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