Michel Plasson conducts the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, chorus and principals in one of the best-loved operas ever composed. Angela Gheorghiu in the title role of Carmen with Inva Mula-Tchako as ...

The only mitigating factor for Bizet was that disappointment was not a new experience for him. Although he was only 36 years old, Carmen was the 30th of his operas, if one tallies complete, incomplete ...

Carmen is Georges Bizet’s most famous opera, renowned all over the world. Bringing it to Limassol is The Met: Live in HD, a programme that broadcasts operas straight from New York. A live transmission ...

This article explores Bizet’s use of common-tone tonality in selections from Carmen. Commontone relations are associated with love and seduction from Carmen’s first entrance, in which a single pitch ...

Georges Bizet has written 6 shows including L'Arlesienne (Composer), Carmen (Composer), Carmen Jones (Source Material), Carmencita (Composer), La Tragédie de Carmen (Composer), Something Wonderful ...

When Bizet’s opera Carmen was first performed in 1875, critics reported the reception was "glacial." After only 33 performances the composer died suddenly, never to know of the international success ...

In Bizet's opera, Lillas Pastia is only briefly portrayed, and Brook incorporates Garcia, who does not appear in the opera, from the original story – Merimée's novella Carmen. Notably, before José ...

Damiano Michieletto's Carmen at the Royal Opera House is full of intriguing ideas, but it is the glorious performances of the main singers Aigul Akhmetshina and Piotr Beczala that make the strongest ...

Georges Bizet was just 24 when he wrote his first full-scale opera. He soon wished that he hadn’t. The Pearl Fishers, wrote one caustic Parisian critic, had “neither fishermen in the libretto nor ...

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