Carmen Street – D’après Georges Bizet

Carmen Street is, quite simply, Bizet's score, but sung by musical comedy voices - and with plenty of modern dance.

In this adaptation, Bizet's Spain is replaced by a small suburban town for the first act, a whimsical Belleville cabaret for the second, and the Stade de France for the final act... Carmen is no longer the Andalusian cigar girl of the new Mérimée, but a nurse in a hospital. Don José, her brigadier from Navarre, has become Youcef, a local policeman. As for Escamillo, he's traded in the bullfighter's banderillas for an international pop singer. In fact, he'll be opening the World Cup with a cover of Bizet's hit “Toréador”!

Preserving all the expressive power of Bizet's masterpiece, Jean-Philippe Delavault and his accomplices show us the tremendous topicality of Carmen's drama, making it accessible to everyone, and especially to today's youngsters, who can make it their own by singing all its hits while dancing hip-hop.