Hutton Honors College

An Evening at the Opera: Carmen,
With a Pre-performance Discussion by Designer Robert O'Hearn

• Fri., Apr. 7, 2006
• 6:30 p.m. Discussion
• 8 p.m. Performance
• Musical Arts Center
• Tickets: $12.00
• SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Originally criticized as "immoral" and "low," and considered a failure at its debut, Carmen has become one of the world's most popular operas. It tells the story of a beautiful and passionate gypsy who convinces a young soldier to abandon his regiment to join her band of smugglers. Free-wielding in love, she is quickly enamored with a new flame and casts away the soldier in favor of a bull-fighting toreador. Passions ignite into a fiery and a dramatic conclusion as the characters' fated doom comes to pass.

Leading the pre-performance discussion will be Robert O'Hearn, world-renowned costume, scenic, and lighting designer and professor emeritus in the IU School of Music. Mr. O'Hearn was a designer for numerous Broadway and Metropolitan Opera productions, as well as for major opera and ballet companies in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, Santa Fe, Vienna, and Hamburg. His designs may still be seen in opera houses around the world.

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