Harlow Playhouse: Ukrainian National Opera Presents: Carmen
Entertainment / Sun 4th Jan 2026 at 11:12am
FEATURING an impressive cast and accompanied by a live Orchestra numbering over 30 musicians.
We are delighted to bring back Dnipro Opera theatre from the Ukraine for our next Opera Season. This opera and ballet theatre has a long-standing heritage of top-quality opera productions, and we are excited to bring it back to the UK.
Carmen – feel the thrill of fiery passion, jealousy, and violence of 19th century Seville Bizet’s most popular opera.
Carmen tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who falls head over heels in love with Carmen, a seductive, free-spirited femme fatale. The infatuated Don José abandons his childhood sweetheart and neglects his military duties, only to lose the fickle Carmen to the glamorous toreador Escamillo.
The music of Carmen has been widely acclaimed for the brilliance of its melodies, enthralling atmosphere, and orchestration, as well as for the skill with which Bizet musically represented the emotions and suffering of his characters. The Toreador Song is among the best known of all operatic arias.
The rich and colourful vigour of the gypsies’ scenes will have you on the edge of your seat, the vibrancy, enthusiasm, and intensity of the performances will reverberate long after the final curtain has fallen.
“Always top-quality productions from this producer”. Stage Talk Magazine
For more information, please visit www.amande-concerts.co.uk’s world.
David Forman
2026-01-04 20:31:05
I wish the Dnipro Opera theatre company all best wishes. However, it is worth noting the Ukrainian government's ongoing campaign against the Russian language and culture that is intertwined with Ukrainian culture. At the end of December 2025 the name of Tchaikovsky was removed from the Ukrainian National Music Academy in Kiev. This is despite the fact that Tchaikovsky's father was part Ukrainian, having come from a line of Zaporozhian Cossacks, and his mother French/German paternal ancestry. Tchaikovsky's name had been attached to Academy since 1940 in honour of his centenary: he lived for several decades in Ukraine and wrote some of his best works there. This combined with attacks on the use of the Russian language and street names, reminds me of the sectarian attacks on Gaelic language and culture in Northern Ireland. See Ukrainian article at https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/30/tchaikovsky-out-ukraine-drops-russian-imperial-composer-from-top-music-academy-name-amid-wartime-decolonization-push/
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