12.03.2024

SABINE DEVIEILHE debuts as Micaëla under the direction of René Jacobs

Free and untamed, this is how the title heroine in Georges Bizet's world opera hit "Carmen" wants to live her life - and she would rather perish than submit to the will of a man. Carmen dies a heroine, accompanied by perhaps the most passionate opera music ever composed.

Together with the B'Rock Orchestra, René Jacobs ventures into the heated bullfighting atmosphere of this piece, which was first performed in 1875 - and in a very special version. Here “Carmen" is performed in the version that Bizet originally intended before the director of the Opéra comique urged him to make broad changes. The original manuscripts of the original version have now been analysed and used as a basis to reconstruct a "Carmen" never before heard.

Gaëlle Arquez is an experienced Carmen performer, while the role of Micaëla is a debut for Sabine Devieilhe, which she approaches with great respect for the score and text. Sabine Devieilhe also draws on a wide range of colours and emotions in the role of Micaëla: from hyper-sensitive and vulnerable to a spiritual strength all of her own, from being in love to despair and loss.

Georges Bizet: Carmen

Gaëlle Arquez, Carmen
François Rougier, Don José
Thomas Dolié, Escamillo
Sabine Devieilhe, Micaëla
Frédéric Caton, Zuniga
Yoann Dubruque, Moralès
Margot Genet, Frasquita
Séraphine Cortez, Mercédès
Grégoire Mour, Remendado
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Dancaire
Karolos Zouganelis, Lillas Pastia

Kinderchor Oper Ballet Vlaanderen
Hendrik Derolez, Chor-Einstudierung
Choeur de chambre de Namur
B'Rock Orchestra
René Jacobs, Conductor