Spring evening with “Carmen”

TIRANA, April. 2- The well known opera “Carmen” of the famous writer George Bize, will open the premier artistic season of the National Theatre of Opera. The show will start on the 7th of April at the NTHOB ambiances and what makes it special is the foreign female artistic staff. The leader of the opera is Gloria Isabel Ramos Triano from Spain known for her passion and sensibility as the leader of the orchestra. Patricia Panron, the artistic director of “Carmen” comes to Albania after her experience with “Faust” in 2006. The assistance of directing belongs to the French artist Vanessa d’Ayral de Serignac. The Albanian staff includes the well known dancer of the NTHOB, Manjola Hasani and the ballet team. The most special part of the show, as Maestro Zhani Ciko declared – “an ornament” of the “Carmen” portrait, is the ballet duo of the artists of the Compania de Danza flamengo DanzaLarriba, Marta LArriba Adell and Daniel Vegas Perez. The special guest of the show, as a protagonist, will be the tenor Franck Asparate, who has been awarded with several prizes in the Sanremo Edition of 2007. He has also participated in some of the very well known Master Class as the “L’Academie se music Chigiana de Siena” in collaboration with Carlo Bergonzi and the “Saint Cere” with Gabriel Bacquier and Michelle Command. Last year he has deputed in the role of “Don Joze”at “Carmen” (Bize) in Calais; in “Goro” at “Madame Butterfly” in Toulon. He has also been invited in several concerts and performed in oratories of Moxart, Verdi, Brahms, and Shubert. During the performance he will be accompanied by the Albanian baritone Gezim Myshketa. For the first time, “Carmen” was shown in the National Theatre of Opera on the 5th of April 1962, 45 years ago.