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The Marionettes presents Bizet's CARMEN

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The Marionettes presents Bizet's CARMEN

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NB: these are OPEN PLAN tickets for CARMEN. For RESERVED tickets, please contact the Marionettes at email@marionetetschorale.com / 868-790-1751; or • call/visit the Queen's Hall Box Office (868-624-1284), 12pm-6pm daily.
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Event Details

Marionettes CARMEN FlyerPerformance Dates (Queen's Hall)

  • Saturday 9th July, 7:30pm (Cast II)
  • Sunday 10th July, 5:00pm (Cast II)
  • Friday 15th July, 7:30pm (Cast II)
  • Saturday 16th July, 7:30pm (Cast I)
  • Sunday 17th July, 5:00pm (Cast I)


Tickets

Tickets are $200 open plan / $250 reserved, available from:

 

The Production

This July, the Marionettes Chorale will present Bizet's iconic opera CARMEN over two weekends at Queen's Hall.

The Marionettes' CARMEN features a stellar international cast of award-winning Trinidadian singers, some of whom are returning from work and study abroad to participate in this exciting event. The cast includes:

• Carmen: Candice Alcantara & Lesley Lewis-Alleyne
• Don José: Marlon De Bique & Nigel Floyd
• Escamillo: Arnold Phillip & Marvin Smith
• Micaëla: Natalia Dopwell & Feryal Qudourah
• Zuñiga: Nigel Pierre & Richard Pierre
• Moralès: Arnold Phillip & Garfield Washington
• Frasquita: Jacqueline Smith & Ayrice Wilson
• Mercédès: Patrice Quammie & Llettesha Sylvester
• Le Dancaïre (Dancaïro): Kashif Dennis & Stephan Hernandez
• Le Remendado: Raguel Gabriel & Errol James
• Lillas Pastia: Caroline Taylor
• Guide: Dwight Lewis 


The Marionettes – together with sponsors bpTT; partners Dr. Vertrelle Mickens of the University of Trinidad & Tobago (UTT) and Noble Douglas of the Noble Douglas Dance Company (NDDCI); members of the Love Movement's Lights of Love; and production team including Celia Wells, Margaret Sheppard, Randy Halfhide, Frank Agarrat, Leslie Clement, Maureen Clement, Giselle Langton and the Marionettes committee – look forward to sharing the journey with you to CARMEN! It will also be the first time the opera is performed with our national instrument, the steel pan.

See you in July!


The Marionettes Chorale
Founded 1964; Incorporated Nonprofit 2005; Sponsored by bptt since 1972
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Where



Queen's Hall
St. Ann's
, Trinidad and Tobago

  News and Updates
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Set for a July 9th premiere at Queen’s Hall, the Marionettes’ production of Bizet’s CARMEN is one of the most anticipated shows of the year. With just over a week to go to showtime, some performances of the bpTT-sponsored production are already half sold. Those who have been waiting for the announcement of the performance schedules for this award-winning double-cast production, though always subject to change, need wait no longer! Bizet’s CARMEN opens on Saturday 9th, Sunday 10th and Friday 15th July with Candice Alcantara as Carmen; Marvin Smith as Escamillo; Feryal Qudourah as Micaëla; Nigel or Richard Pierre as Zuñiga; Arnold Phillip as Moralès; Jacqueline Smith as Frasquita; Patrice Quammie as Mercédès; Kashif Dennis as Dancaïro; Raguel Gabriel as Remendado; Caroline Taylor and Dwight Lewis in the spoken roles of Lillas Pastia and the Guide; and Marlon De Bique or Nigel Floyd as Don José.

The following weekend (Saturday 16th July and Sunday 17th July), Lesley Lewis-Alleyne takes centrestage as Carmen; Arnold Phillip is her Escamillo; Natalia Dopwell is Micaëla; with Garfield Washington as Moralès; Richard Pierre as Zuñiga; Ayrice Wilson and Llettesha Sylvester as Frasquita; Stephan Hernandez and Raguel Gabriel as Dancaïro and Remendado; Caroline Taylor and Dwight Lewis in the spoken roles of Lillas Pastia and the Guide; and Nigel Floyd or Marlon De Bique as Don José.  

Tickets

Bizet’s CARMEN runs over two weekends, opening Saturday 9th and closing Sunday 17th July at Queen’s Hall. Showtimes are 7:30pm, except Sundays which are 5pm. Tickets are $200 open plan and $250 reserved, and available: