The Bucharest National Opera will launch the 2025–2026 season with the premiere of Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen, directed by Ada Hausvater. Costumes are designed by Corina Grămoşteanu, sets are created by Helmut Stürmer, and the musical direction is led by Maestro Ciprian Teodoraşcu. The event takes place in the wider context of the international opera world celebrating this year the 150th anniversary of the work’s world premiere, which took place on March 3, 1875.

The premiere performances are scheduled for October 1, 2, and 3, at 6:30 p.m. This production promises a new perspective on one of the most beloved works in the international operatic repertoire.

A true manifesto of passion and feminine freedom, Georges Bizet’s Carmen brings to the stage of the Bucharest National Opera a gripping story about love, life, choice, and destiny. In a world where the characters’ dramas intertwine, the production explores the search for self through the different ways Carmen and Don José understand love. The story unfolds through desire, attraction, and willpower, culminating in a moving finale—a reflection on the courage of individual choices.

A visionary and accomplished theater creator, both as a director and as head of one of Romania’s most important theaters—the National Theatre of Timișoara—Ada Lupu Hausvater has been recognized nationally and internationally with numerous distinctions, including the French Ministry of Culture’s Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Romania’s National Order “For Merit” in the rank of Knight, as well as many other awards. In her productions, she explores the feminine universe within the paradigm of love as a superior expression of choice, responsibility, intellect, and self-awareness.

In this staging, the director focuses on her central themes: humanity as an expression and outcome of self-determination, of desire, and of the individual’s capacity to shape their own life and identity. With Carmen, Ada Lupu Hausvater brings to the stage of the Bucharest National Opera a powerful, contemporary, and deeply human vision of one of the most loved and controversial operas of all time. In her direction, Carmen becomes a manifesto for freedom, self-fulfillment, love, and responsibility.

Tickets are available at https://tickets.operanb.ro/

Written by News.ro | 19 august 2025, 12:36