Where: Cineworld Cheltenham and Gloucester Quays, Gloucester Guildhall and Vue Stroud

When: Thursday, September 14, 2017

Experience George Bizet's stunning opera Carmen on the Lake live at cinemas in Gloucestershire. 

The uniquely-staged spectacle is being brought to nearly 300 cinemas in the UK by event cinema specialists CinemaLive's recently launched brand The World's Most Spectacular Operas.

The initiative aims to showcase stunning operas from around the globe in cinemas making them accessible to UK audiences. Carmen on the Lake is being broadcast to Cineworld in Cheltenham and Gloucester Quays, Gloucester Guildhall and Vue Stroud for one night on September 14.

Seebühne, or floating stage, with its 7,000 seat open-air amphitheatre, is the location for the French composer's most successful opera.

With a set designed by British artist Es Devlin, who has designed sets for stars such as Adele, U2, Take That and Kanye West, the stage sits on the water near the shores of the stunning Lake Constance in Austria.

This romantic and dramatic setting regularly welcomes opera lovers from all over the world, where the productions are extravagantly original and innovative and frequently use the waters of the lake as an extension of the stage.

For stage director Kasper Holten, the former Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House, this opera about destiny and obsession centres on two people who are treated as outsiders, whose paths cross and who cling to each other in a passionate but unhealthy relationship.

It features Georges Bizet's captivating music, with its instantly recognisable Spanish sounds. Music directors Paolo Carignani and Jordan de Souza will lead the musical direction of this production, with the Bregenz Festival Chorus and Prague Philharmonic Choir accompanied by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

For the past five years, CinemaLive has distributed Opera Australia's Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour productions to cinema audiences in the UK and Ireland which have been seen by over 75,000 people on the big screen. 

Carmen on the Lake will be screened at Cineworld in Cheltenham and Gloucester Quays and Gloucester Guildhall on September 14 at 7pm. It start at 6.45pm at Vue Stroud.