This concert is live streamed from the WACA Ground on Australian Digital Concert Hall

To attend this performance in person, please visit the West Australian Opera website here.

In a large-scale outdoor arena spectacular, Bizet’s masterpiece, Carmen, will be performed by over 150 singers and musicians.

The historic WACA ground, the scene of many epic conflicts, plays host to the loves, betrayals, celebrations and tragedies of one of opera’s greatest stories.

Carmen is a bold, daring working-class woman, a free spirit. She sets her sights on Escamillo inciting jealousy in Don José.

Hear the famous Habanera and the Toreador’s Song performed by the West Australian Opera Chorus, the Children’s Chorus and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.

Sung in French with English surtitles. Dialogue in English. Duration: 3 hours including interval.

Artists: 

Georges Bizet – Composer

Dane Lam – Conductor

Stuart Maunder – Director

Sean McKernan – Video and Lighting Designer

Nastassja Kruger – Fight Coordinator

Hugh Lydon – Chorus Master

Tommaso Pollio – Repetiteur

Helen Brown – French Language Coach

Tabatha McFadyen – English Dialogue

CAST

Ashlyn Tymms – Carmen

Paul O’Neill – Don José

José Carbó – Escamillo

Prudence Sanders – Micaëla

Emma Pettemerides – Frasquita

Brigitte Heuser – Mercédès

Lachlann Lawton – Moralès

Jake Bigwood – Zuniga

Mark Alderson – El Dancaïro

Matt Reuben/James Ward – El Remendado

Callen Dellar – Lillas Pastia

FEATURING

West Australian Opera Chorus

West Australian Opera Children’s Chorus

West Australian Symphony Orchestra

Program:

Bizet – Carmen

Carmen is supported by Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative.