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Carmen (French: ⓘ) is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.
Carmen, opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet—with a libretto in French by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy—that premiered on March 3, 1875. With a plot based on the 1845 novella of the same name by Prosper Mérimée, Bizet’s Carmen was groundbreaking in its realism, and it rapidly.
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Carmen , a searing depiction of a woman who craves love, but creates obsession and jealousy, is one of the most popular operas ever written. Bizet ‘s Spanish-inflected score is bursting with passionate melodies and famous numbers such as Carmen’s seductive ‘Habanera’ and Escamillo’s ‘Toreador song’.
Like many opera libretti, Bizet’s Carmen derives from multiple sources. Perhaps the most obvious (and most widely credited) is French writer Prosper Mérimée’s novella Carmen . Mérimée shared in the mid-19th-century French fascination with exotic, bizarre, and sordid subjects.
Apr 21, 2023 · Nell Minow April 21, 2023. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The ravishing images in “Carmen” evoke a powerful sense of myth, poetry, timelessness, and dreams. Each shot is exquisitely framed, every detail contributing to the haunting mood.
