Prosper Merimee News

Roxey Ballet Company will present Carmen to open their spring season beginning February 24, returning for the first time since 2020.

Roxey Ballet presents Carmen, a contemporary masterpiece full of passion and betrayal. Witness the twists of romance and tragic consequences unfold in this sizzling dance production

After recently staging Alice Reyes’ classic 'Rama, Hari,' the Alice Reyes Dance Philippines presents 'Carmen and Other Spirits,' a mixed bill featuring four choreographic works tackling the themes of codependency, environmental degradation, love, obsession, and jealousy.

Despite the loss of revenue from the pandemic and the black box theater from Hurricane Ida, The Roxey Ballet Company prevails with an adventurous spring season of productions presenting Carmen, Frida, Mowgli (The Jungle Book Story), Graduation Ball, and The C-Word: Stories of Triumph Over Breast Cancer.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City General Director and CEO Deborah Sandler today announced the company's 2020-2021 season. It features four mainstage productions, including The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess and The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, both of which are being performed on a Lyric Opera of Kansas City stage for the first time. Two all-time favorites known for incomparable melodies - Verdi's beloved La traviata and Bizet's passionate Carmen - round out the extraordinarily diverse season. The Kansas City Symphony Orchestra will accompany all performances at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Find biographies of the casts and creative teams at Lyric Opera of Kansas City and find high-resolution photos here.

Gabriela Estrada will present the solo 'Not a Single Carmen More!,' (Ni Una Carmen Mas!), danced by Ivanka Figueroa as part of a performance entitled 'Mourning Loss/Celebrating Survival,' on October 5, named a Day of Action Against Domestic Violence.

The Drama League (Gabriel Stelian-Shanks, Executive Artistic Director) today announced the 2019 Drama League Awards Nominees for Outstanding Production of a Play, Outstanding Revival of a Play, Outstanding Production of a Musical, Outstanding Revival of a Musical, and the much-coveted Distinguished Performance Award. The nominations were announced this morning by the current stars of Waitress, Shoshana Bean and Jeremy Jordan, at the official announcement event at Sardi's Restaurant, which was streamed live online here at BroadwayWorld.

Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre (PBDT), led by Natasha Middleton, Artistic Director and Choreographer will kick off its 17th Anniversary Season with a Southern California Tour of the full-length ballet "CARMEN," based onGeorges Bizet's opera and Prosper Merimee's original story with Special String and Percussion Musical Arrangements conceived by Rodion Shehedrin, starring Elen Harutyunyan as Carmen, Gregori Arakelyan as Don Jose, Preston Swovelin as Escamillo, Damara Titmus as Micaela and Alexander Fost as Remendado.

Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre (PBDT), led by Natasha Middleton, Artistic Director and Choreographer will kick off its 17th Anniversary Season with a Southern California Tour of the full-length ballet 'CARMEN,' based on Georges Bizet's opera and Prosper Merimee's original story with Special String and Percussion Musical Arrangements conceived by Rodion Shehedrin, starring Elen Harutyunyan as Carmen, Gregori Arakelyan as Don Jose, Preston Swovelin as Escamillo, Damara Titmus as Micaela and Alexander Fost as Remendado.

Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre (PBDT), led by Natasha Middleton, Artistic Director and Choreographer will kick off its 17th Anniversary Season with a Southern California Tour of the full-length ballet 'CARMEN,' based on Georges Bizet's opera and Prosper Merimee's original story with Special String and Percussion Musical Arrangements conceived by Rodion Shehedrin, starring Elen Harutyunyan as Carmen, Gregori Arakelyan as Don Jose, Preston Swovelin as Escamillo, Damara Titmus as Micaela and Alexander Fost as Remendado.

Opera return this autumn with a reimagining of Bizet's famous masterpiece La Tragedie de Carmen. In 1981 Peter Brook collaborated with composer Marius Constant to reimagine this emotive opera and, now, Opera will stage this stripped back incarnation. Sung in French with Opera's signature 'silent movie' captions in English, this dark and thrilling piece may not always be as you expect.

This is not shaping up to be a good year for Oscar Hammerstein II, American musical theatre's most important writer, who spent the first half of the 20th Century not only making significant strides to convert the genre from loosely assembled entertainments into respected and influential pieces of dramatic art, but was also a leading voice in promoting progressive values through his books and lyrics for such musicals as SHOW BOAT, SOUTH PACIFIC and THE KING AND I.

Lambertville, NJ based Roxey Ballet continues it's 23rd Anniversary Season with crowd-favorite performances through the spring of 2018. In February, Roxey Ballet will present an evening of love and romance with its contemporary re-telling of Carmen from February 2nd - 11th in it's intimate, in-studio theater located in downtown Lambertville.

For a director known as opera's bad boy, Calixto Bieito turned to something awfully familiar in CARMEN for his US debut. Then again, he didn't actually show up for it, tied up with a new production of Aribert Reimann's LEAR in Paris and dispatching one of his top collabortors, Joan Anton Rechi, to pull it together.

Upon first glance, the sterile, white sets that greet the audience once the curtain rises on BalletMet's "Carmen.maquia" might have many theatergoers double-checking their programs. Indeed, the barren stage, interrupted by amorphous masses that appear to be constructed from thin layers of crepe paper, in no way resembles the streets of Seville, Spain. Yet it is on this blank canvas that the dancers of BalletMet create color through movement and emotion, effectively painting a vibrant, Pablo Picasso-esque portrait of humanity.

Year 2015 is the sweet 16th year for the MITF. Prolific producer John Chatterton's brainchild, The Midtown International Theatre Festival - presenting powerful plays and musicals from around the world - is steadily marching toward 20 years as one of the best reasons to come to New York in the summer. This year, the diverse Midtown International will present quality live theater PLUS a series of cutting-edge short works, children's theater, dance productions, one-person shows, cabaret, vaudeville & burlesque style entertainment.

The Daily Mail writes that Nicholas Hytner has zeroed in on his first big project following his departure from the National Theatre -- a new version of Bizet's CARMEN with book by Lucy Prebble. Hytner led an informal read through of the new adaptation last weekend, and the production is aiming for the West End in 2016.

Cinnabar Theater presents Carmen, with Music by Georges Bizet / Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy, Based on the novella by Prosper Merimee

Cinnabar Theater presents Carmen, with Music by Georges Bizet / Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy, Based on the novella by Prosper Merimee

CARMEN (book by Norman Allen, lyrics by Jack Murphy, and directed by Gabriel Barre), currently running at the Karlin Theatre in Prague and starring the Czech Republic's biggest pop star Lucie Bila, has broken all box office records there and is now the biggest hit in the history of Czech theatre according to local media.