20 November 2008- 23 November 2008

! PREMIERE ! Georges Bizet "Carmen"

! PREMIERE ! Georges Bizet "Carmen"

The Bolshoi Theatre has done seven productions of Carmen. But now, in its 232nd season and, for the first time in its history, the Theatre is to produce the opera with dialogue in place of recitative. The public will have a unique opportunity of hearing one of the most popular operas of all times in its original form, i.e., as it was heard by the audience at its world premiere at the Paris Opera Comique. The new production is by Yuri Temirkanov and David Pountney, two performing arts personalities of world renown.