Genre : Opera
Running Time : 2 hr. 30 min. (includes 1 intermission)
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Carmen is an opera that is in four acts. This opera was first performed March 3, 1875 at the Paris Opéra Comique with the following cast: Carmen (Célestine Galli-Marié), Don José (Paul Lhérie; Escamillo), Jacques Bouhy, and Michaela (Marguerite Chapuy). The protagonists include: Carmen (mezzo-soprano), a gypsy working at the Seville cigarette factory, Don José (tenor), a corporal from Navarre, Escamillo (baritone), a toreador, Michaela (soprano), a peasant girl from Navarre, Frasquita and Mercedes (soprano), gypsies and friends of Carmen Dancairo (baritone) and Remendado (tenor), who are smugglers, Zuniga (bass), a lieutenant, and Morales (baritone), a corporal. It was located in and around Seville in the time of the 1820s. The man who started it all, Georges Bizet was exposed to music from an early age. His parents were a voice teacher and a pianist. They enrolled him at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of nine. One of his teachers there later became his father-in-law. This man was Jacques Fromental Halévy, the composer of 'La Juive', among other operas. In 1857 Bizet won the prestigious 'Rome Prize', and after a further three years of studies in Italy he again settled in Paris. None of his operas ("Les Pecheurs de Perles" in 1863; "La Jolie Fille de Perth" in 1867, and "Djamileh" in 1872), however, ended up begin a great success.
Show Biography - Carmen
It was shortly after the premiere of "Djamileh" that Bizet's attention was directed towards the "Carmen" subject, probably by Camille Du Locle who was at that point the manager of the Opéra Comique. There is little documentation about the gestation process of libretto and composition. The first choice for the title role, the singer Maria Roze, turned down the part on account of Carmen's frivolous character and the tragic ending before the rehearsal period even began. Originally scheduled for May 1874, the start was deferred to September of that year because the composition was not finished. When rehearsals began in earnest, the part of Carmen now assigned to Célestine Galli-Marié, a darling of the Parisian opera world, Bizet rewrote and inserted numbers according to the principals' wishes. Public reaction after the premiere on March 3, 1875 was cool, the critics' reviews however, were quite devastating. Bizet died, at age 38, of a heart attack only three months later. On that day, June 3, 1875, Carmen was given in Paris for the 33rd time, to increasing success. The spoken dialogues were later set to music by Bizet's friend Ernest Guiraud who also added some ballet music to Act IV, drawn from other Bizet compositions. It was the Italian language version that popularized the opera from St. Petersburg via London to New York (all in 1878), but Carmen was sung in the foreign language in most of its premieres abroad: Budapest (1876), Stockholm (1878), Hamburg (1880), Prague (1880), Amsterdam (1887), Copenhagen (1887), Helsinki (1889, in Russian), Zagreb (1893), Sofia (1912) and Shanghai (1918, in Russian). In whatever language, whether with composed recitatives or in the opéra comique version with spoken dialogues, Carmen is one of the mainstays of the operatic repertoire and popular with audiences all over the world. According to a survey, the Toreador's Song is the most widely known piece from ANY work of music theatre (followed closely by the Triumphal March from 'Aida').
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It was shortly after the premiere of "Djamileh" that Bizet's attention was directed towards the "Carmen" subject, probably by Camille Du Locle who was at that point the manager of the Opéra Comique. There is little documentation about the gestation process of libretto and composition.
