Arena di Verona: Carmen
Year: 2022
Country: Italy
Director & Set Designer: Franco Zeffirelli
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Lighting Designer: Paolo Mazzon
Costume Designer: Anna Anni
Cast: Elīna Garanča, Brian Jagde, Maria Teresa Leva, Claudio Sgura
Genre: opera
Runtime: 184 min.
Age: 16+
Country: Italy
Director & Set Designer: Franco Zeffirelli
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Lighting Designer: Paolo Mazzon
Costume Designer: Anna Anni
Cast: Elīna Garanča, Brian Jagde, Maria Teresa Leva, Claudio Sgura
Genre: opera
Runtime: 184 min.
Age: 16+
A classic production by Franco Zeffirelli featuring stars of the world opera stage and Spanish flamenco dancers.
Italian film and stage director Franco Zeffirelli also made his debut at the Arena back then with Carmen.
On the occasion of his 100th birthday, his three versions were put together for the first time in a “best of” version. The side set painted for the first edition and the large number of people and wide movements that characterized the original production are set back on stage. Highlights of the 2003 and 2009 stagings are skillfully combined with this. The 2022 production is hence something never seen before, which even proposes scenography’s elements that haven’t been realized in the previous stagings, but were originally planned by Zeffirelli.
On the occasion of his 100th birthday, his three versions were put together for the first time in a “best of” version. The side set painted for the first edition and the large number of people and wide movements that characterized the original production are set back on stage. Highlights of the 2003 and 2009 stagings are skillfully combined with this. The 2022 production is hence something never seen before, which even proposes scenography’s elements that haven’t been realized in the previous stagings, but were originally planned by Zeffirelli.
