Bizet’s Carmen, presented by award winning stage director, Eleanor Burke, and our inspiring musical director, John Paul Jennings. The cast of dazzling singers is joined by our energetic chorus, many of whom hail from the local community. Full details of the cast are below.

In a Spanish prison, Carmen declares that any person she loves should beware. But even she is unprepared for what will happen when she decides to seduce Don José, a prison guard who initially appears uninterested in her charms. Don José soon abandons his sweetheart Micaëla and his life for Carmen, and joins her and her smuggler friends in the mountains. But Carmen quickly wearies of Don José's possessiveness. When she turns her attentions to the dashing toreador Escamillo, Don José's jealousy erupts into violence and Carmen’s insistence on maintaining her freedom comes at a terrible cost.

Creative:

Director Eleanor Burke

Conductor  John Paul Jennings

Movement Director  Alexander Gotch

Set / Costume design   Raphaé Memon

Assistant director Finn Lacey

Stage Manager Lorrie Hay

Our cast:

Carmen     Abbie Ward

Don José   Ricardo Abate

Escamillo  Benoît Déchelotte

Micaëla   Lizzie Ryder

Zuniga    Jacob Dyksterhouse

Le Dancaïre   Thomas Litchev

Le Remendado   Lars Fischer

Mercédès    Hannah Morley

Frasquita   Eleanor Janes

Morales     Ashley Mercer

Carmen cover    Elora Ledger

Don José cover  Robin Whitehouse

Micaëla cover    Manuela Baranik

Mercédès cover    Alexandra Dinwiddie

Frasquita cover  Sophie Price

Le Remendado cover    Peder Holtermann

Chorus

Patricia Ninian

Susan Roberts

Bridget Coaker

Daphne Perry

Paul Bolton