After the rediscovery of the first version of Gounod’s Faust in 2018 and the original version of Offenbach’s La Vie parisienne in 2021, the Palazzetto Bru Zane and its partners present a revival – this time visual – of another great French Romantic opera: Bizet’s Carmen, with the costumes, sets and staging of the 1875 premiere.


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And go behind the scenes with the artists who made the (re)creation of Carmen possible! Romain Gilbert (director), Antoine Fontaine (sets), Christian Lacroix (costumes), Hervé Gary (lighting) and Étienne Jardin (Palazzetto Bru Zane) explain their links with Georges Bizet's masterpiece and how they worked together to restore the original staging, costumes and sets, with the simple aim of discovering what Carmen was like when it was first performed in 1875.