Live Opera Returns To Salt Lake City With Utah Opera's Production Of LA TRAGEDIE DE CARMEN
Kirstin Chávez sings the role Carmen with Isaac Hurtado as Don José and Efraín Solís as Escamillo.by BWW News Desk
Audiences are invited to experience live opera once again when Utah Opera produces Peter Brook's "La tragédie de Carmen" at the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre in downtown Salt Lake City. The five performances take place from Saturday, May 8, 2021 through Sunday, May 16, 2021 and will be the first Utah Opera performances staged for a live audience since October 2020.
"I've always been attracted to the Brook adaptation of Bizet's famous opera," said Christopher McBeth, Utah Opera's Artistic Director. "It takes a story and music with which most of us are familiar and re-examines the characters, the themes and the music in a way that not only is respectful to the original upon which it is based but also gives us a new perspective. The piece is compelling in its focus and powerful in it distillation. It gives everyone involved that feeling of freshness and discovery, no matter how much experience we may have with 'Carmen.'"