National Ballet of Canada to perform Ballet based on Bizet/Serebrier Carmen Symphony April 27, 2009
As part of the annual Luminato-Toronto Festival of Arts, the National Ballet of Canada will present the North American Premier of a ballet based on Bizet’s Carmen.
There have been many ballet versions of the story of Carmen, but there has never been one like this groundbreaking, genre-bending re-conceptualization by the provocative Italian choreographer Davide Bombana. While maintaining an allegiance to the basic narrative of the Bizet opera, Bombana dispenses with the inessentials and goes straight for the latent carnality and primal passions at work at the heart of the story.
‘I find Carmen's plot fascinating and very modern; everything is there: a sense of fate, the violence that dominates human relationships, love which devours and destroys everything and human isolation,’ says Davide Bombana.
Fine recordings of the Bizet/Serebrier Carmen Symphony are available on Naxos and BIS.
Carmen Ballet
National Ballet of Canada
The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Canada
Performance Schedule - Carmen |
2PM |
Saturday |
June 6, 2009 |
7:30PM |
Saturday |
June 6, 2009 |
2PM |
Sunday |
June 7, 2009 |
7:30PM |
Wednesday |
June 10, 2009 |
7:30PM |
Thursday |
June 11, 2009 |
7:30PM |
Friday |
June 12, 2009 |
2PM |
Saturday |
June 13, 2009 |
7:30PM |
Saturday |
June 13, 2009 |
2PM |
Sunday |
June 14, 2009 |
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