Compania Teatro Nuovo

CARMEN ...a tragedy full of passion! The Italian choreographer and director Luciano Cannito succeeds with his danced version of the widely-known opera material (to the original music by George Bizet and the new composition by Marco Schiavoni) in putting together a marvellous story of love and revenge for two internationally celebrated ballet stars: the Cuban dancer Antonio Aguila as Don Jose, and the prima ballerina Viviana Durante (formerly at e.g. the Royal Ballet London) as Carmen. The story of Carmen is narrated as a universal story full of power, extreme passion and a stark urge for freedom; as such this ballet evening manages to tell a lively and very contemporary Carmen story without denying its Mediterranean flair and fervour.