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Shanghai Opera House: Carmen

Date: March 24-25 - 7:15 pm

Venue: Shanghai Grand Theater

The Carmen is coproduced by the Shanghai Opera House, Opera Hong Kong and Slovene National Theater, with Philippe Arlaud as the stage director, set and lighting designer. It has been performed many times at various major theaters in China and was presented at the Shanghai Grand Theater in July 2016 as the closing performance of Shanghai Opera House's 2015/2016 Performance Season. The SOH's production of Carmen had won great acclaims in China and each performance put up for public sale was immediately snapped up. Don Jose, a naive soldier, is seduced by the wiles of the fiery gypsy Carmen. Jose abandons his childhood sweetheart Micaela and is arrested for dereliction of his military duties. After Jose is released from two month's detention, he has no choice but to join Carmen and smugglers. Yet it turns out that Jose loses Carmen's love to the glamorous toreador Escamillo. Intolerant of watching his much-beloved woman cheering for the triumph of the toreador, Jose stabs Carmen in a jealous rage.