Carmen – Opéra Royal de Versailles (recreation of the 1875 production)
classical music 2Live Performance 4Opera 2 Antoine Fontaine (scenography) Bizet Carmen Christian Lacroix (costumes) Hervé Niquet (conductor) live review Opéra Royal de Versailles Romain Gilbert (director) Vincent Chaillet (choreography)
Performance/recreation of Georges Bizet’s Carmen (1875) at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, staged by Romain Gilbert with period-instrument orchestration under Hervé Niquet, starring Éléonore Pancrazi as Carmen. The production reconstructs 19th-century mise-en-scène and costumes (Christian Lacroix) and was presented at Versailles (January 2025).
