Breaking Ice: The Battle of the Carmens to Debut at The Rink

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, rival figure skaters Katarina Witt and Debi Thomas independently chose to perform their long routines to Bizet’s Carmen, resulting in what has gone down

in legend as “The Battle of the Carmens.” Inspired by this, and by her own childhood as a figure skater, singer-composer Alicia Hall Moran created Breaking Ice: The Battle of the Carmens, a new vocal work for an ice skating audience, featuring Ice Theatre of New York. We are pleased to announce that the 20-minute piece will be performed for the first time at The Rink at Bank of America Winter Village on Thursday, January 11.

Moran will sing from center-ice as the public skates around her. The performance begins at 1:40pm and can be heard on ice as well as from the Deck surrounding the Rink. It’s free and open to all, but in order to be on the ice during the performance, please arrive at least 20 minutes before the event begins. Information about skate rentals, including costs, can be found at wintervillage.org.

The performance is presented by the PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now Festival’s Out of Bounds 2018, a platform for new vocal performance pieces taking place in unlikely locations throughout New York.