CarmenCo: 'Creating Carmen'

Music in Peebles

Creating Carmen is more than a concert; it occupies the borders between a play and a concert, with 60/40 music to spoken word. It is a fully staged, costumed and professionally lit show for three musicians and two actors. The main characters are Prosper Mérimée, writer of the novella on which Bizet’s Carmen was based, and Carmen herself, as imagined by Mérimée.

Prosper Mérimée is struggling with his latest novella, when his leading character, Carmen, turns up in his study, larger than life, with a band of musicians in tow and chaos in her wake. Which one of them controls the narrative? And what happen when Carmen discovers the nasty ending Mérimée has planned for her?

A fun-filled evening of fantasy, comedy, drama, and tremendous music, researched and arranged by CarmenCo for guitars and flute/voice from Bizet’s “Carmen” and Spanish and Spanish-inspired music by Boccherini, da Falla, Garcia-Lorca, Granados, Ravel and Albeniz.

CarmenCo

Emily Andrews (mezzo-soprano and flute)
David Massey and Francisco Correa (guitars)

With:

Alice Imelda and Niall Ashdown (actors)
Clare Norburn (writer/director)