Welcome to the first draft of our opera comic strip for La Petite Carmen! Using a sequence of pictures, the opera strip is meant to give highlights of the story. The speech bubbles are actually an English translation of key words from the French opera arias and duets sung by the characters. The characters’ names are, (in the order that they appear,) Escamillo and Micaela, then Carmen and José. So far, we have 10 panels forming the narrative, and we plan to add more.
The narration was written by Emily Lidstone and is written from Carmen’s point of view. Nishant Mudgal is the illustrator; he is very talented and can draw in many different styles. In order to match the opera strip to future opera performances, Nishant used the costume design drawings for detail and the performers’ photos.
