'Carmen' leads NCPA Opera Festival
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Hungarian mezzo-soprano Viktoria Vizin |
Hungarian mezzo-soprano Viktoria Vizin will sing the title role in the opera "Carmen" at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on April 9-16, Sohu.com reports.
Vizin has sung the role of the beautiful gypsy at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and Royal Opera House in London.
The NCPA first staged "Carmen" last May to wide audience acclaim. This year's performance has been billed as an updated version featuring world-class performers, including Brandon Jovanovich as Don José, Jossie Pérez and Michael Todd Simpson.
The new production will be the first to open the NCPA Opera Festival that runs from April 9 through July 9.
"Carmen", set in Spain in the 1830s, is about a beautiful gypsy girl's romance with and betrayal of a soldier, which eventually leads him to kill her.
"The character of Carmen is a woman who is independent," said director Francesca Zambello about her understanding of the lead character. "No one can hold her down. She says she is willing to die for freedom. She says, 'Free I was born, free I will die.' To me, that is sort of the key understanding of the character. The fact that she never really loves someone, except for one moment when she loves José. But he makes the fatal mistake of being too much in love with her, which is why she rejects him. And only in her death, she forces José to kill her. Only in her death, she has that kind of total freedom."
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