Bob Bernhardt, conductor & music director
Helena Binder, stage director
Elise Quagliata, Carmen
Richard Troxell, Don José
Jennifer Goode Cooper, Micaëla
Gregory Gerbrandt, Escamillo
Set in southern Spain, Bizet’s classic opera centers on Carmen, a beautiful and fiery gypsy girl who seduces Don José, a straight-laced soldier in the army. The tale that unfolds is one of passion, obsession, and spurned love.