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Synopsis: Carmen Select a language to update the synopsis text. Composer. Georges Bizét. Librettist. Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halevy. Sung In. French. Met titles In. ... Find The Metropolitan Opera on Facebook (opens new window) Find The Metropolitan Opera on Twitter (opens new window) Find The Metropolitan Opera on Instagram (opens new window) ...
Carmen Synopsis. ACT I. It’s a blistering hot day in sunny Seville, Spain. Hot and tired, a group of soldiers hangs out watching people go by. The shy, pretty Micaela comes looking for Corporal Don José, but he’s not there. The soldiers try to get Micaela to stay by flirting with her, but she leaves.
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.
Jan 17, 2019 · Georges Bizet (1838-1875) Librettists. Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote the story of the opera based on the novel Carmen by Prosper Mérimée. The Setting of Carmen. The scene of Carmen takes place in Seville, Spain during the mid 19th century. Main Characters of Carmen. Carmen (soprano) Don Jose (tenor) El Dancairo (baritone)
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.
Librettist. Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac. Language. French. Date of premiere. March 3rd, 1875. Number of Acts. Four. Music length. Two hours and thirty five minutes. Versions. Carmen is relatively unusual in that what you’ll hear varies, not inconsiderably.
Carmen. Every woman is bitter as bile, but each has two good moments,” begins the epigraph to Prosper Mérimée’s novella Carmen, one of the primary sources for Georges Bizet’s immortal opera of the same name. The “two good moments” that the author cites—the first sexual, the next in the grave—establish with offensive economy the ...
