This was my first opera performance and an amazing experience. I am glad that I got this chance to see Carmen at the Met Opera. Anna Soo-Hoo I also kept thinking about how much work it must take to produce and coordinate everything in an opera. When I heard the song “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” I recognized the melody but had never known the words-seeing the opera gave me a fuller understanding of the music. I suppose I'll have to start going to more operas! Lucie Hawkins The scenery was ingenious, in my opinion, and the costumes really evoked the mood of the show. I thought all the actors played their parts very well and was particularly impressed with the actor who played Don Jose.
Sara RichtarikĪfter reading Carmen in class, it was wonderful to see the story come alive onstage. The mechanism that allowed the center stage to turn in a circle was stunningly used at the end: after don Jose stabs and kills Carmen, the interior set spins open to reveal the bullring with the spectators and Carmen's love, the Toreador, standing over a bull that he has just defeated. I also thought the modern stage design was very interesting, and evoked a more recent time and place. The performers where phenomenal and the experience as a whole was awesome and one I will not forget. The show we selected, Carmen, was spectacular. I need to admit that I had a great time and a phenomenal experience because it was my first time actually seeing an opera. I recently had the opportunity to see Carmen at the New York Metropolitan Opera. Overall I loved it and I know that it is somewhere I would look forward to going to again. I was also a little fascinated with the technical side, how they built the set and changed it depending on the scenes. I had previously seen some on TV, but being there physically and seeing a story I was reading in class come to life on stage was awesome.
In October 2012, Professor Ender’s class Nineteenth-Century French Literature (1800-1850) spent an evening at the Metropolitan Opera House to see the opera Carmen, whose libretto was inspired by a tale by Mérimée studied in class.
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