Opera of the Week – Carmen from Tokyo in Amy Winehouse style
OperaOur latest Opera of the Week is the new Alex Ollé production of Bizet’s Carmen from the New National Theatre Tokyo. It is an OperaVision selection for World Opera Day on 25th October.
French mezzo-soprano Stéphanie d’Oustrac plays the seductive heroine with a rock star style modelled on Amy Winehouse. Toshiaki Murakami is Don José and Alexandre Duhamel takes the role of Escamillo. The conductor is Kazushi Ono with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at the New National Theatre Tokyo.
Sung in French with subtitles in English, Japanese and French. It is available online until 18th January 2022.
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