CARMEN
opera in four acts
Performed in French (the performance will have synchronised Russian supertitles)

Music by Georges Bizet
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy after the novel by Prosper Mérimée

Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Stage Director: Alexei Stepanyuk
Assistant Director: Ilya Ustyantsev
Set Designer: Igor Grinevich
Lighting Designer of the new version: Alexander Sivaev
Musical Preparation: Irina Soboleva
Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko
Chorus Masters: Pavel Petrenko and Igor Gribkov

World premiere: 3 March 1875, Opéra-Comique, Paris
First performance in Russia: 16 February 1878, the Italian Opera Company, Bolshoi (Stone) Theatre, St Petersburg
First performance at the Mariinsky Theatre: 30 September 1885, St Petersburg

Premiere of this production: 30 April 2005, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
New stage version: 13 March 2016

Running time: 3 hours 30 minutes
The performance has one interval

Age category: 12+