G. BIZET

CARMEN

19 NOVEMBER 2016

Michael Williams’ spectacular staging of Bizet’s eternally popular Spanish melodrama, which played to sell-out success in 2011, is revived as the second instalment of the Naspers Grand Opera Masters Series. Michael Mitchell’s atmospheric designs conjure up a hot and sultry Seville, and the large cast is completed by a company of flamenco dancers, executing the inspired choreography of the late Carolyn Holden.

CONDUCTOR TIM MURRAY
DIRECTOR MICHAEL WILLIAMS
DESIGNER MICHAEL MITCHELL
LIGHTING DESIGNER FAHEEM BARDIEN
ASSISTANT CONDUCTER MARVIN KERNELLE
CHOREOGRAPHY BETH JEFFERY + ZETHU MTATI (AFTER CAROLYN HOLDEN)
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SHELLY ADRIAANZEN
CHORUS MASTER MARVIN KERNELLE
CAPE TOWN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA MASTER PATRICK GOODWIN

CAST

CARMEN VIOLINA ANGUELOV
DON JOSÉ LUC ROBERT
MICAËLA NOLUVUYISO MPOFU
ESCAMILLO WILLIAM BERGER
ZUNIGA XOLELA SIXABA
MORALES JOHANNES SLABBERT, MANDISINDE MBUYAZWE
FRASQUITA SIPHAMANDLA YENDE
MERCEDES GIVEN NKOSI
DANCAIRE MANDLA MNDEBELE
UNDERSTUDIES ANNEMARIE STEENKAMP,
GIVEN NKOSI,
LEAH GUNTER,
MANDISINDE MBUYAZWE,
SIPHAMANDLA YAKUPA,
THANDO MJANDANA