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This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2023 season. This season is now over.

Carmen the Cabaret - Woman with a flower in her tied-back black her and gold earrings, and bright red lipstick, side on, smiling knowingly at viewer.

Carmen the Cabaret

Cabaret • Music
New South Wales • World Premiere

If Carmen is a 'femme fatale', why does she end up dying? If Carmen inhabited your soul, how would it feel? Using all the hit tunes from Carmen, award-winning cabaret team Eliane Morel (singer) and Daryl Wallis (accompanist), directed by International opera legend Ghillian Sullivan, comically interrogate the opera's story and music, and explore how performing Carmen affects those who dare to take on the role...

A world premiere at Adelaide Fringe 2023, Carmen the Cabaret will have you laughing, crying, singing along and wondering how you knew all the tunes from an opera you've never seen. 

"Morel’s and Wallis’s cabaret is great fun, and Morel can really sing!... Impressive operatic style and range... engaging and humorous". Mark Wickett, Stage Whispers

Presented by: Eliane Morel and The Garage International

Eliane Morel is a Sydney based writer/singer/actor/producer. She is principal Mezzo-soprano with boutique opera company, Opera Bites, and has performed the Habanera from Carmen more times than she can count (and has performed the role 3 times). Her debut cabaret 'Disenchanted' has won multiple awards and toured Australia, and will tour internationally in 2023.