As free as a rebellious bird, it is hard to escape the magnetic allure of Carmen. Entranced by her passionate seguidilla, the soldier Don José descends into a dangerous spiral of desire. Jealousy and obsession lead to fatal consequences in Francesca Zambello ’s production in which matadors bump shoulders with factory workers in the heat of Seville.

In partnership with the African American Art & Culture Complex, San Francisco Opera’s Department of Diversity, Equity and Community (DEC) will host a free screening of Carmen: A Hip Hopera, the 2001 made-for-MTV film adaptation of Bizet’s opera starring Beyoncé in the title role, on Thursday, November 7 at 6:30 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (October 28, 2024) — San Francisco Opera’s 2024 Fall Season concludes with the return of Georges Bizet’s Carmen from November 13–December 1 at the War Memorial Opera House.

2024年11月14日 · A revival of Carmen opened last night at San Francisco Opera with some very fine singing and lively, brisk playing. Francesca Zambello's 2006 production is both pretty and functional, there is never a pause in the music to set up the stage. Conductor Benjamin Manis had the orchestra at a quick pace.

2024年11月22日 · A fiery, free-spirited Gypsy girl comes to an unhappy end in Georges Bizet’s popular Carmen, at San Francisco’s sumptuous War Memorial Opera House through December 1. Mezzo-soprano Eve-Maud Hubeaux stars as the eponymous seductress and consort of smugglers, who abandons one lover after another and provokes much mischief and grief in the …

2024年11月27日 · Love is a rebellious bird—”L’amour est un oiseau rebelle”—Carmen insists, in her renowned opening Habanera, a Cuban-influenced dance of seduction that immediately raises every pulse. Making her American debut as Bizet’s fiery centerpiece, Swiss mezzo-soprano Eve-Maud Hubeaux clearly embodies the gypsy child who only loves whomever doesn’t love her.

As the fate motif sounds in the orchestra at the end of the Prelude to Georges Bizet’s Carmen, the curtain — in San Francisco Opera’s current revival of director Francesca Zambello’s production — rises on the character Don José in chains, awaiting execution.