Clémentine Margaine

As Aragon descends into unrest, a count jealously fights for a noble lady's heart. But she has already given it to a passionate troubadour whose mother holds a terrible secret.

La histórica producción con escenografía de Mestres Cabanes regresa al Liceu con Pirozzi, Margaine y Meade. La Aida de nuestros padres, de nuestros abuelos o de nuestros bisabuelos. Vuelven los decorados hiperrealistas de Josep Mestres Cabanes, realizados en 1945 y que muestran con todo su esplendor la gran escuela de la escenografía catalana. Siempre al servicio de la pomposidad —pero también del intimismo— de la antepenúltima ópera de Verdi, los decorados del artista de Manresa siguen la tradición del historicismo sin caer nunca en lo kitsch.

Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, a triumph in her 2017 debut performances, with impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and Roberto Alagna as her lover, Don José. Omer Meir Wellber and Louis Langrée share conducting duties for Sir Richard Eyre’s powerful production, a Met favorite since its 2009 premiere.

Spiced with Italian buffa, L’Heure espagnole transports us to Torquemada’s clock shop, the scene of his wife Concepcion’s infidelities.

With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, Carmen, the beautiful cigar-maker sets her sights on a soldier: Don José. Fate will do the rest. Composed to a libretto by Meilhac and Halévy based on Prosper Mérimée’s novella, the opera exploded the boundaries between tragedy and comedy with a modernity that caused a scandal at the time. Can we kill the one we love with love? The fiery beauty of Bizet’s music, where one unforgettable aria follows another, has worked year in, year out to make it the world’s most performed opera.