Some call the production “tough, dark, spare and intelligent,” while others have dubbed it “an outrageous example of directorial self-indulgence.”
Reviews from European showings of the 17-year-old production seem to agree, but not without controversy. When San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley announced the Bieito production, he emphasized that in comparison with the director’s more excessive, “Eurotrash” surprises, Carmen is relatively mainstream. (The Metropolitan Opera will follow next season, with Bieito’s La Forza del Destino.) performance of any opera production by the notorious Spanish director. Opera’s Carmen, in the production by his old friend and fellow Catalan Calixto Bieito. Rechi is in San Francisco now, and as May 27 approaches, his current distinction is that he is responsible for staging S.F. Being from a tiny country between Spain and France with a population of 85,000, and no train or airport of its own, is just one of Rechi’s distinctions. “No, I was born there, and it’s my home, very nice, very calm,” he says. Stage director Joan Anton Rechi is amused when people assume that he lives in Andorra because it’s a tax haven that attracts numerous celebrities, such as Montserrat Caballe.
The Bieito Carmen in a Barcelona production.
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