CARMEN

by Georges Bizet

October 14, 2011 at 8:00 PM
October 16, 2011 at 3:00 PM

Memorial Auditorium, Progress Energy Center, Raleigh  (view seating chart)

Sung in French with English supertitles

Matadors, cigarettes, seduction and jealousy! In sultry Seville, a soldier falls for a bewitching gypsy. Their attraction is intense, but will her thirst for freedom destroy them both?

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CAST

Carmen – Leann Sandel-Pantaleo
Don José – William Joyner
Micaëla – Andrea Edith Moore
Escamillo – David Williams
Zuniga – Donald Hartmann
Moralès – John Brandon
Frasquita – Rachel Copeland
Mercédès – Jennifer Seiger
El Remendado – Wade Henderson
El Dancaïre – DeMar Neal
Lillas Pastia – Hans Kellner
A Guide – Raymond Cormier
Dancers – Sarah Shelton, Alicia Vila

Conductor – Timothy Myers
Director – Candace Evans

Technical Director – Lisa Kish
Lighting Designer – Jeff David
Costume Designer – Michael Hite
Wig and Makeup Designer – Liz Prinz
Production Stage Manager – Margaret Kellner
Assistant Stage Manager – Julia Tyson
Properties Master - Eileen Tack
Associate Music Director/Pianist - Wilson Southerland
Chorus Master – Nathan Leaf
Children’s Chorus Master – Fran Page
Sound Designer – Phil Hartley
Production Assistant/Supertitle Operator – Sam Shaber