



in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College Streets.īrook's controversial 1983 adaptation - here directed by Garnett Bruce - retells the story about the doomed romance between the gypsy vixen and Spanish army officer, but eliminates the chorus and strips the drama down to its core of four characters: Carmen, Micaëla, Don José and Escamillo. The production, a "deconstructed" version of French composer Georges Bizet's operatic masterpiece "Carmen," will be presented on Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13, at 8 p.m. Some of the original elements will be gone, but the love and the tragedy will remain when Yale Opera presents "La tragedie de Carmen," an adaptation of Bizet's masterpiece realized for the stage by British director Peter Brook. Yale Opera production is a retelling of Bizet's 'Carmen'
