
27 Jan 2024

The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
Director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day, in a contemporary American industrial town.
Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams."
Theodore "Hickey" Hickman
Larry Slade
Rocky
Willie Oban
Harry Hope
Don Parritt
The Captain
The General (Piet Wetjoen)
Jimmy Tomorrow
Chuck
Hugo
Joe Mott
Pat
Ed Mosher
Margie (as Hilda Brawner)
Pearl
Moran (as Herbert Voland)
Cora
27 Jan 2024
Director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day, in a contemporary American industrial town.
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