For the first time entered the repertory of the Bolshoi Theatre on April 20, 1967.
Revived on November 18, 2005.
Running time: 50 minutes.
Libretto Alberto Alonso based on the story Carmen by Prospero Merime
Choreographer: Alberto Alonso
Designer: Boris Messerer
Music Director: Pavel Sorokin
Assistant to Choreographer: Sonia Calero Alonso
Lighting designer: Alexander Rubtsov
 Carmen number one, Maya Plisetskaya, and Carmen of nowdays, Svetlana Zakharova. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Choreographer of the ballet Alberto Alonso and Maya Plisetskaya. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Before ’corrida’. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Svetlana Zakharova as Carmen. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Andrei Merkuriev as Jose. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Svetlana Zakharova as Carmen. Andrei Uvarov as Jose. Photo by Yelena Fetissova. |  Svetlana Zakharova as Carmen. Andrei Uvarov as Jose. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Irina Semirechenskaya Olga Stebletsova and Victoria Osipova as Tobacco Girls. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Svetlana Zakharova as Carmen. Irina Semirechenskaya and Olga Stebletsova as Tobacco Girls. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Svetlana Zakharova as Carmen. Andrei Uvarov as Jose. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Svetlana Zakharova as Carmen. Andrei Uvarov as Jose. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Galina Stepanenko as Carmen. Yuri Klevtsov as Jose. Photo by Andrei Melanyin. |  Galina Stepanenko as Carmen. Yuri Klevtsov as Jose. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Galina Stepanenko as Carmen. Timofei Lavrenyuk as Torero. Photo by Andrei Melanyin. |  A scene from the performance. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Yulia Grebenshchikova as Fate. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |
