"
Funny people, these people"
: in the new production of the Opéra Comique, this first line of Carmen is sung by a choir in costumes from 1875, the date of creation of Bizet's masterpiece, in us looking at us, audience of 2023, lights on in the room.
Throughout the evening, the staging of Andreas Homoki will play on the telescoping of time and the mise en abyme.
A man dressed like us learns the role of Don José and finds himself absorbed in the play, swallowed up by a theater curtain which opens and closes on the stage side and on the auditorium side, while changing eras with each tableau.
We go from the Third Republic to the 1940s and then to the era of television.
A virtuoso exercise in style, especially for costume designer Gideon Davey, but which turns to process: if the goal is to show that Carmen is from all eras, we understood.
What we will remember above all is that, in response to Catherine Clément's famous title
L'Opéra ou la défeat des femmes
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