top of page

La Tragedie de Carmen

Scenic design and stage direction for OperaDelaware, 2015

060.jpg

 Peter Brook’s intensification of the opera was my first chance to both direct and design for OperaDelaware. 

    Four singers, two actors, a plot that sizzles, and a set that moves fast enough to keep up with the action.

103.jpg
068.jpg
002.jpg
048.jpg
057.jpg
024.jpg
116.jpg
131.jpg
133.jpg

A street in Seville to open the show.

Carmen gets all the way to a cell before Jose frees her.

Lilas Pastia's tavern.

Carmen has a Gypsy husband in the mountains, whom Jose has to kill. 

EscaEscamillo prays before the corrida...millo

...but doesn't survive it.

Outside the bullring.

Carmen goes back to the mountains for her death.

Photos by Mark Garvin for OperaDelaware

May 17, 2015 at the Laird Arts Center, The Tatnall School

Carmen attacks Micaela. No, this is not the opera plot!

bottom of page