Reconceived and adapted by A. Scott Parry; guest conducted by Mark Lane Swanson; music by Georges Bizet; book by Henri Meilhac; lyrics by Ludovic Halévy. Performed in French, with English supertitles.
Ohio State Opera presents a newly-adapted and unconventional version of the Bizet masterpiece in an intimate, yet highly charged chamber version. The production will be helmed by director A. Scott Parry who re-imagines the ever-popular work as an expression of an unraveling mind, its familiar characters becoming merely echoes, asking what is real, what is imagined, what is memory, and what is dream?
Traditionally presented as a four-act grand opera, the OSU Opera’s Carmen is reconceived as a one-act opéra comique with spoken dialogue interspersed throughout. The production will explore the power of truths that are hidden and/or revealed by the interplay of shadow and light, sound and silence. The immediacy and directness of this unconventional presentation is sure to provide a unique experience that’s not to be missed. Event poster (open with Adobe Reader)
Performances are Saturday, April 13 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, April 14 at 3 pm in Thurber Theatre, in the Drake Performance and Event Center, 1849 Cannon Drive.
- Directions to Drake
- Parking at Drake
- Ohio State Department of Theatre, Drake Performance and Event Center, (614) 292-2295, http://theatre.osu.edu
Tickets
- $20 general admission
- $10 ConcertCard holders, senior citizens, Alumni Association members, non-OSU students, children
- FREE to all Ohio State students, faculty and staff (1 ticket per BuckID presented in person)
- Advance ticket sales at (614) 292-2295
- Theatre box office information at http://theatre.osu.edu/boxoffice
