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Bar Harbor Music Festival Opera Theatre presents Carmen
Date and Time
Friday Jul 19, 2019
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM EDTFriday, July 19, 8:00 p.m.
Location
1932 Criterion Theatre, 35 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor
Fees/Admission
Tickets are $35, $50, and $80. Students: $15
Contact Information
Bar Harbor Music Festival office: 59 Cottage Street (to the left of the Post Office); 207-288-5744
Send EmailBar Harbor Music Festival Opera Theat...Description
On Friday, July 19 at 8:00 p.m., the Bar Harbor Music Festival Opera Theatre presents a fully-staged opera, "Carmen" by Georges Bizet. Audrey Babcock, Mezzo-Soprano is Carmen. "Audrey Babcock's performance as Carmen was a spellbinding tour de force...her self assured characterization was mesmerizing."- Salt Lake Tribune. Directed by Fenlon Lamb, with Cara Chowning as Music Director, Carmen takes place in the recently renovated 1932 Criterion Theatre in Bar Harbor. Regarding the Festival's opera performances: "Sung in a manner that would have had audiences in any grand opera house in the world in awe", wrote Nan Lincoln in the Mount Desert Islander. With Adam Diegel, Tenor, as Don José, Janinah Burnett, Soprano, as Micaéla, April Martin, Soprano, as Frasquita, and Richard Ollarsaba, Baritone, as Escamillo.
