Carmen

What happens when Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen – a feast of jealous passion and fatal love – collides with the flamenco visionary from Seville, Israel Galván? The result is a journey to the very heart of Carmen. Familiar opera arias burn brightly, yet the result is a classic pulsating in a totally new form, in which the love story is told by three opera singers, a cantaora and a flamenco dancer. At its side stands a full symphony orchestra, as Carmen demands – and, in an audacious twist, the acclaimed Oulu-based male choir Huutajat!

Where Bizet’s Carmen is a romantic opera of doomed destiny and jealous obsession, Galván’s Carmen becomes a contemporary ritual. The tale is dismantled, inverted and rebuilt through dance, cry and a multi-layered soundscape. Having reinterpreted classics such as Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Galván approaches these masterpieces in his own style: intimate, provocative, veiled by humour, but never diminished. “Everything is veiled in musical exaggeration and fantasy. The performance ends in love – not the knife,” he sums up.

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Duration about1 h 20 min (no intermission)

Tickets 58 € normal / 48 € pensioner / 38 € student, unemployed, child (3–17 yrs)

Free entry to the concert for Kaikukortti holders (limited amount, must be purchased in advance from Oulu10 service point).

Prices include service fee. Order fee 3 €/order when bought from Ticketmaster shops or 1,50 €/order when bought from Ticketmaster online shop will be added, excluding tickets purchased at Oulu Sinfonia ticket booth and Kaikukortti-tickets.