Carmen - The Bad Girl of Opera
Wed, Sep 18
|Odd Fellows Hall
Time & Location
Sep 18, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Odd Fellows Hall, 520 Dana St, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, USA
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Carmen is one of the world's most popular operas and a staple of the standard operatic repertoire.
It is a French opera by Georges Bizet based on a novella. A soldier, Don José, falls passionately in love with a gypsy woman, Carmen, and deserts the army to follow a life of crime for her. When she is unfaithful to him, he murders her. Carmen is the supreme incarnation of the . Energetic, resourceful, fatalistic and indomitable, she exudes an aura of sexuality, superstition, and malevolence which exerts a deadly charm on Don José. Their relationship leads to the rejection of his former love, a turn to criminal life and the murder of Carmen. The story is set in Spain, circa 1830.femme fatale
You will view a production starring Swedish mezzo Anna Sofie von Otter as the seductress Carmen. In addition you will…