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==Roles== [[File:Atelier Nadar - Galli-Marié in Bizet's Carmen.jpg|thumb|[[Célestine Galli-Marié]] as Carmen]] {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |+{{sronly|Roles, voice types, premiere cast}} |- !scope=col| Role !scope=col| [[Voice type]]<ref name=OMO2>{{cite dictionary|last= Macdonald|first= Hugh|title= Carmen|url= http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/O008315?q=Carmen&hbutton_search.x=37&hbutton_search.y=9&search=quick&pos=22&_start=1#firsthit|dictionary= Oxford Music Online|access-date= 29 March 2012}} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref> !scope=col| Premiere cast, 3 March 1875<br />Conductor: [[Adolphe Deloffre]]<ref name=D112 /> |- !scope=row| Carmen, ''A Gypsy Girl'' | [[mezzo-soprano]] | [[Célestine Galli-Marié]] |- !scope=row| Don José, ''Corporal of Dragoons'' | [[tenor]] | [[Paul Lhérie]] |- !scope=row| Escamillo, ''Toreador'' | [[bass-baritone]]{{refn|The term "[[bass-baritone]]" is somewhat ambiguous. In the ''[[Grove Music Online]]'' article on "[[Baritone]]", Escamillo is included in various lists of baritone roles,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Jander |first1=Owen |last2=Sawkins |first2=Lionel |last3=Steane |first3=J.B. |last4=Forbes |first4=Elizabeth |title=Baritone |url= https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-5000008400 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |access-date=19 March 2021}} {{Grove Music subscription}}</ref> however, the ''Grove Music Online'' article on "Carmen", lists Escamillo as a bass-baritone.<ref name=OMO2/> This article uses the latter, as it more directly identifies Escamillo's voice type.|group= n}} | [[Jacques Bouhy]] |- !scope=row| Micaëla, ''A Village Maiden'' | [[soprano]] | [[Marguerite Chapuy]] |- !scope=row| Zuniga, ''Lieutenant of Dragoons'' | [[bass (voice type)|bass]] | [[Eugène Dufriche]] |- ! scope="row" | Le Dancaïre, ''smuggler'' | [[baritone]] | Pierre-Armand Potel |- ! scope="row" | Le Remendado, ''smuggler'' | tenor | [[Barnolt]] |- ! scope="row" | Mercédès, ''Companion of Carmen'' | mezzo-soprano | [[Esther Chevalier]] |- ! scope="row" | Frasquita, ''Companion of Carmen'' | soprano | [[Alice Ducasse]] |- !scope=row| Moralès, ''Corporal of Dragoons'' | baritone | [[Edmond Duvernoy]] |- !scope=row| Lillas Pastia, ''an innkeeper'' | spoken | M. Nathan |- !scope=row| A guide | spoken | M. Teste |- | colspan="3" | ''Chorus: Soldiers, young men, cigarette factory girls, Escamillo's supporters, Gypsies, merchants and orange sellers, police, bullfighters, people, urchins.'' |} * Cast details are as provided by Curtiss<ref>Curtiss, p. 390</ref> from the original piano and vocal score. The stage designs are credited to Charles Ponchard.
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