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Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Georges BIZET (1838-1875)CarmenAmong the great composers, perhaps only Borodin contributed as little to the active repertoire as Georges Bizet, and yet this talented but short-lived Frenchman will never be forgotten. His Carmen is the most popular of all operas, challenged only by Puccinis La bohème. It is in the repertoire of every opera house and has been recorded innumerable times it was one of the first operas to be recorded complete. Among the many films that have been made of it is one of the black Broadway version Carmen Jones with English lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The irony is that Bizet himself did not live to see the success of his masterpiece and when he went to his grave, even his friends and supporters must have despaired of his reputation. One or two of his other operas, notably The Pearl Fishers, still have a slight hold on our attention, as do a handful of orchestral pieces, but to all intents and purposes he is a one-work composer. The idea of adapting Prosper Mérimées novella into an opera came from Bizet himself. He had the services of the notable librettists Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy he was related to the latter by marriage and they did a superb job. In some ways they expanded the original story, inventing the character Micaëla as a counterpart to Carmen and beefing up the toreadors rôle; in other directions they contracted it, making the hero Don Josés downfall into a crime less degrading. Bizet himself made some contributions to the libretto and in writing the music he surpassed himself, with dazzling solo numbers, deftly tailored ensembles, ranging from the lofty style of the duet of Micaëla and Don José to the almost operetta mode of the famous quintet, and characterful choruses. At other points, for instance the Card Scene and the final confrontation between Carmen and the desperate Don José, he produced his most dramatic music. The opera ran into trouble even during the rehearsals at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, with the chorus, required to act with previously unheard-of naturalism, going on strike at one point. The première on 3rd March 1875 was not well received and while it is easy to see that the subject matter must have appalled bourgeois opera-goers, who did not mind reading about such things but did not want to see them staged, it is strange to find that even the music did not please at first. The management, which had been courageous enough in putting the work on, stood by it and gave it 35 performances; but poor Bizet was dead before the end of the run. Another thirteen performances followed in the next season, and although the Opéra-Comique then dropped the work until 1883, it was soon wildly popular elsewhere. Even at the Opéra-Comique it passed its thousandth performance in 1905. The first singer of Carmen was Galli-Marié and other famous exponents
Prelude
Entr'acte
Sur La Place Chacun Passe
Ecoute, ecoute, compagnon, ecoute!
Avec La Garde Montante
Melons! Coupons!
La cloche a sonne...
En vain, pour eviter les reponses ameres
Mais nous ne voyons pas la Carmencita!
Quant Au Douanier, C'est Notre Affaire!
L'amour Est Un Oiseau Rebelle
C'est des contrebandiers le refuge ordinaire...
Carmen! Sur Tes Pas, Nous Nous Pressons Tous!
Je Suis Escamillo
Parle-moi De Ma Mere!
Halte! Quelqu'un Est Lxc3
Au Secours! Au Secours!
Entr'acte
Tra la la la la la la la
A Deux Cuartos!
Pres Des Remparts De Seville
Les Voici, Les Voici
Voici L'ordre
Si Tu M'aimes, Carmen
Entr'acte
C'est Toi! C'est Moi!
Les Tringles Des Sistres Tintaient
Tu ne m'aimes donc plus?
Vivat, Vivat Le Torero!
Votre Toast, Je Peux Vous Le Rendre
Nous avons en tete une affaire!
Halte-la! Qui Va La? Dragon D'alcala!
Je Vais Danser En Votre Honneur
Au Quartier! Pour L'appel!
La Fleur Que Tu M'avais Jetxc3xa9e
Non! Tu Ne M'aimes Pas!
Non! je ne veux plus l'ecouter!
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