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Carmen is a full-length ballet performance with flamenco in two acts. The ballet is directed and choreographed by Tomaž Rode and the flamenco dances are designed by Ana Pandur. Carmen is one of the best-known and most popular Spanish stories. The ballet, choreographed by Tomaž Rodet, takes as its basis the content of the well-known opera. It is a classical ballet with many attractive duets, variations, pantomimes and interludes of real Spanish Flamenco to the famous music of Georges Bizet, who wrote an opera in 1875 based on a novella by Prospero Merimee. The opera was a great success at its premiere, but soon afterwards audiences were upset by new stylistic elements in the work and critics tore the opera apart. Merimé's story was accused of being bawdy, and the music was branded "Wagnerian" and "dissonant". Three months later, Bizet died believing that Carmen was a failure. Soon, however, the opera was praised by everyone, including famous composers such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Wagner. Carmen was first staged by the Slovenian Association of Ballet Artists in 2015 and is still performed today, where it continues to receive an overwhelming response from audiences.

Enterance fee: 13 € pre-sale, 18 € regular price, 13 € students and seniors