Teatro Real Orchestra
Carmen by Antonio Gades
Artist: Teatro Real Orchestra - Producer: Teatro Real - Conductor: Gerard Mortier - Featured Artist: Jairo Rodríguez, Angel Gil, Companía Antonio Gades, Teatro Real, Joaquín Mulero & Vanesa Vento - Composer: Antonío Gades, Antonio Solera, Georges Bizet & Ricardo Freire Gonzales - Orchestra: Teatro Real Orchestra
Carmen by Antonio Gades
Created by Antonio Gades in collaboration with Carlos Saura, this matchless production shows how the explosive power and intensity of feeling in traditional Spanish flamenco can bring vividly to life the sultry passion, earthy emotion, love and rivalry that is Carmen. Vanesa Vento lives and breathes Carmen, emphasizing the many faces of this character, female, passionate and freedom fighter, but fickle in love as she shamelessly flirts with men she likes, inspiring desire, rivalry and jealousy amongst both the men and other women. But Carmen’s gypsy wildness becomes her own downfall when she discards Don José’s (Ángel Gil) love for that of the bullfighter (Jairo Rodríguez), as possessed by a piercing despair Don José kills her.