{"id":286328,"date":"2025-10-08T10:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/286328\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T10:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:55:11","slug":"dallas-opera-to-open-2025-26-season-with-bizets-carmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/286328\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Opera to open 2025-26 season with Bizet\u2019s \u2018Carmen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reports of the \u201cdisastrous\u201d premiere of Georges Bizet\u2019s Carmen have been greatly exaggerated. Some in the Paris audience were shocked by the eponymous heroine\u2019s forthright sexuality, and there were some scathing reviews. But the opera ran for 45 performances that first year, and, even though set in Spain, it became the most enduringly popular French opera. Its tunes are hard to beat.<\/p>\n

Subsequent productions have reimagined the doomed Carmen, her pathologically obsessed lover and a flashy bullfighter in Francisco\u2019s Spain and today\u2019s U.S. Southwest. But, marking the opera\u2019s 150th anniversary, the Dallas Opera<\/a> is opening its 2025-26 season<\/a> with sets and costumes based on designs from the Paris premiere. And while most current Carmens are done with sung dialogue subsequently composed by Ernest Guiraud, the opera is being performed here, as conceived, with spoken dialogue.<\/p>\n

Mezzo Marina Viotti stars as Carmen, with Saimir Pirgu as Don Jos\u00e9, Teresa Perrotta as Mica\u00ebla and Gihoon Kim as Escamillo. Music director Emmanuel Villaume conducts the Dallas Opera Orchestra and Chorus.<\/p>\n

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8 p.m. Oct. 17 (note later start); 2 p.m. Oct. 19 and 26; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 and 25 at Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. $19 to $458. 214-443-1000, dallasopera.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"Violinist<\/a>Review: Fancy wining and dining, and the Dallas Symphony in fine form for gala<\/a><\/p>\n

Violinist Leonidas Kavakos joined for the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.<\/p>\n

\"Soprano<\/a>Review: Mixed results from Fabio Luisi, Dallas Symphony<\/a><\/p>\n

Haydn and Mahler symphonies had lovely quieter playing, but proportions were sometimes off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reports of the \u201cdisastrous\u201d premiere of Georges Bizet\u2019s Carmen have been greatly exaggerated. Some in the Paris audience…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":286329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1576,1596,116895,7260,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-286328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-classical-music","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-opera","12":"tag-performing-arts","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115338184424997419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}