CARMEN

Georges Bizet

Longborough Festival Opera

Cast: Margaret Plummer, Peter Gijsbertsen, Matthew Durkan, Jennifer Witton, Szymon Chojnacki, Idunnu Munch, Samuel Pantcheff, Haegee Lee, Kieran Rayner, Alex Haigh, Maria Jagusz, James Gribble.

Conductor: Jeremy Silver, Designer: Constance Canavarro, Lighting Designer: Simon Spencer, Associate Conductor/Chorus Master: Karin Hendrickson, Assistant Director: Andy Bewley,  Movement Director: Carmine De Amicis, Repetiteur: Janet Haney,  Surtitles: Kenneth Chalmers, Youth Chorus Team: Nicola Rose, Maria Jagusz and Jessica May.


"...legs of smoked jamón hang down, interspersed with religious images of Madonna and child and pictures of a golden-haired boy. Don José’s mother-fixation and the mother’s clinging to him are central to director Mathilde López’s view of Bizet’s opera"   The Guardian