BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1b943b9c-b9a2-4d63-9ae5-e20ebe6385b9@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261026T193307Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261116 SUMMARY:The MET: LIVE in HD Encore – Bizet’s Carmen DESCRIPTION:Description Event Details: Date: Sunday\, November 15\, 2026 Time: 12:00 PM Central Venue: MUSE Sturgeon Bay Directions: 330 Jefferso n Street\, Sturgeon Bay\, Wisconsin 54235. On the corner of Third Avenue and Jefferson Street in downtown Sturgeon Bay. Phone: 920-333-2859 Emai l: tickets@musesturgeonbay.com MUSE is officially an approved streaming venue for THE MET Opera: LIVE in HD! That’s right! You can experience th e world of The MET Opera in your own neighborhood. Richard Eyre’s belove d production of Bizet’s masterpiece returns to theaters for a special en core this season\, led by soprano Elīna Garanča as the title character a nd tenor Roberto Alagna as Don José in the iconic 2010 Met performance—a fan favorite of The Met: Live in HD series. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conduc ts. World premiere: Opéra-Comique\, Paris\, 1875. Bizet’s masterpiece of the seductress who lives by her own rules has had an impact far beyond the opera house. The opera’s melodic sweep is as irresistible as the tit le character herself\, a force of nature who has become a defining femal e cultural figure. Carmen was a scandal at its premiere but soon after b ecame a triumphal success and has remained one of the most frequently st aged operas in the world. Sung in: French Estimated Run Time: 3 Hours Sy nopsis Act I Spain. In Seville by a cigarette factory\, soldiers comment on the townspeople. Among them is Micaëla\, a peasant girl\, who asks f or a corporal named Don José. Moralès\, another corporal\, tells her he will return with the changing of the guard. The relief guard\, headed by Lieutenant Zuniga\, soon arrives\, and José learns from Moralès that Mi caëla has been looking for him. When the factory bell rings\, the men of Seville gather to watch the female workers—especially their favorite\, the gypsy Carmen. She tells her admirers that love is free and obeys no rules. Only one man pays no attention to her: Don José. Carmen throws a flower at him\, and the girls go back to work. José picks up the flower and hides it when Micaëla returns. She brings a letter from José’s mothe r\, who lives in a village in the countryside. As he begins to read the letter\, Micaëla leaves. José is about to throw away the flower when a f ight erupts inside the factory between Carmen and another girl. Zuniga s ends José to retrieve the gypsy. Carmen refuses to answer Zuniga’s quest ions\, and José is ordered to take her to prison. Left alone with him\, she entices José with suggestions of a rendezvous at Lillas Pastia’s tav ern. Mesmerized\, he agrees to let her get away. As they leave for priso n\, Carmen escapes. Don José is arrested. Act II Carmen and her friends Frasquita and Mercédès entertain the guests at the tavern. Zuniga tells Carmen that José has just been released. The bullfighter Escamillo enter s\, boasting about the pleasures of his profession\, and flirts with Car men\, who tells him that she is involved with someone else. After the ta vern guests have left with Escamillo\, the smugglers Dancaïre and Remend ado explain their latest scheme to the women. Frasquita and Mercédès are willing to help\, but Carmen refuses because she is in love. The smuggl ers withdraw as José approaches. Carmen arouses his jealousy by telling him how she danced for Zuniga. She dances for him now\, but when a bugle call is heard he says he must return to the barracks. Carmen mocks him. To prove his love\, José shows her the flower she threw at him and conf esses how its scent made him not lose hope during the weeks in prison. S he is unimpressed: if he really loved her\, he would desert the army and join her in a life of freedom in the mountains. José refuses\, and Carm en tells him to leave. Zuniga bursts in\, and in a jealous rage José fig hts him. The smugglers return and disarm Zuniga. José now has no choice but to join them. Act III Carmen and José quarrel in the smugglers’ moun tain hideaway. She admits that her love is fading and advises him to ret urn to live with his mother. When Frasquita and Mercédès turn the cards to tell their fortunes\, they foresee love and riches for themselves\, b ut Carmen’s cards spell death—for her and for José. Micaëla appears\, fr ightened by the mountains and afraid to meet the woman who has turned Jo sé into a criminal. She hides when a shot rings out. José has fired at a n intruder\, who turns out to be Escamillo. He tells José that he has co me to find Carmen\, and the two men fight. The smugglers separate them\, and Escamillo invites everyone\, Carmen in particular\, to his next bul lfight. When he has left\, Micaëla emerges and begs José to return home. He agrees when he learns that his mother is dying\, but before he leave s he warns Carmen that they will meet again. Act IV Back in Seville\, th e crowd cheers the bullfighters on their way to the arena. Carmen arrive s on Escamillo’s arm\, and Frasquita and Mercédès warn her that José is nearby. Unafraid\, she waits outside the entrance as the crowds enter th e arena. José appears and begs Carmen to forget the past and start a new life with him. She calmly tells him that their affair is over: she was born free and free she will die. The crowd is heard cheering Escamillo. José keeps trying to win Carmen back. She takes off his ring and throws it at his feet before heading for the arena. José stabs her to death. Ca st Barbara Frittoli\, Elīna Garanča\, Roberto Alagna\, Teddy Tahu Rhodes CONDUCTOR: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Creators Georges Bizet (1838–75) was kn own as a brilliant student and prodigy\, but his works only found lastin g success after his untimely death—most notably Carmen\, which premiered three months before he died. Librettist Henri Meilhac (1831–97) would s ubsequently provide the libretto for Massenet’s Manon (1884). His collab orator on Carmen was Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908)\, the nephew of composer Jacques Fromental Halévy (creator of the opera La Juive and Bizet’s fat her-in-law). The libretto is based on a novella by Prosper Mérimée (1803 –70)\, a French dramatist\, historian\, and archaeologist. Composer: Geo rges Bizet Production: Richard Eyre SET and COSTUME DESIGNER: Rob Howell LIGHTING DESIGNER: Peter Mumford CHOREOGRAPHER: Christopher Wheeldon\n\ nTickets: https://musesturgeonbay.org/product/the-met-live-in-hd-encore- bizets-carmen/\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/1b943b9c-b9a2-4d63-9 ae5-e20ebe6385b9 LOCATION:MUSE Sturgeon Bay\, 330 Jefferson Street\, Sturgeon Bay\, WI 542 35 URL:https://findlocal.community/event/1b943b9c-b9a2-4d63-9ae5-e20ebe6385b 9 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR