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Her Name Was Carmen, St.Petersburg Ballet at the Coliseum

23 Aug 16 – 28 Aug 16, 19:30 No performance on 24 August

That perennial favourite, Carmen, provides inspiration for the St. Petersburg Ballet in a new full-length work coming to the Coliseum in August.

By Teresa Guerreiro on 6/7/2016

Irina Kolesnikova in Her Name Was Carmen
Irina Kolesnikova in Her Name Was Carmen
Her Name Was Carmen, St.Petersburg Ballet at the Coliseum Her Name Was Carmen, St.Petersburg Ballet at the Coliseum Teresa Guerreiro
Last mangled by Carlos Acosta in his farewell production for the Royal Ballet, Carmen suffers yet another transformation in a work for the St. Petersburg Ballet, which has its world première in London.


No longer the tragic gypsy of Mérimée’s novella made famous by Bizet’s opera, the heroine of Her Name Was Carmen is now a refugee in a camp somewhere in Europe. Don José, originally a naive soldier, is a fellow inmate; the glamorous toreador Escamillo transmogrifies into the leader of a gang of people smugglers.


St. Petersburg Ballet is a 50-strong touring company mostly used as a vehicle for its leading lady, Irina Kolesnikova. We’re more used to seeing her in crowd-pleasing classics such as Swan Lake, but clearly the lady fancied a new challenge.


This was provided by the current refugee crisis in Europe. Kolesnikova and her choreographer, Andrei Kuznetsov-Vecheslov, visited a number of refugee camps in the Balkans to fashion the material for this new work.


Music will be a new arrangement of the famous Bizet score; and although we can’t possibly recommend this with great enthusiasm, we would note that £1 for every ticket sold will go to the charity Oxfam to support its work in the Balkans.


by Teresa Guerreiro

What Her Name Was Carmen, St.Petersburg Ballet at the Coliseum
Where London Coliseum, St Martin's Lane, , London , WC2N 4ES | MAP
Nearest tube Charing Cross (underground)
When 23 Aug 16 – 28 Aug 16, 19:30 No performance on 24 August
Price £16.50 - £95
Website Click here to book via the Coliseum website



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  • Carmen in ballet history

    The story of Carmen, the feisty, sexy, ultimately tragic Seville gypsy, has provided inspiration to dancers and choreographers since Bizet immortalised her in opera.

    Roland Petit created his Carmen in 1949 for perhaps the greatest interpreter of the role ever, his wife, Zizi Jeanmaire.

    Almost 20 years later, the Cuban Alberto Alonzo created his Carmen Suite at the request of the great Maya Plisetskaya.

    More recently, Matthew Bourne subverted the original story with his much-acclaimed The Car Man.

    And Carlos Acosta had a go too, for the Royal Ballet – an effort about which the less said the better.

    All used a musical suite adapted from Bizet's original score.



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