At least one actress refused the part to avoid scandal however, Galli-Marié accepted it in December without seeing the score. The delays were due to the difficulty in finding a leading lady. It took him two months to complete the orchestrations. He bought a house at Bougival on the Seine, where he finished in the score in the summer of 1874. The most well-known themes from this opera include the Toreador Song, the Habanera, and the Prelude.īizet’s original plan was to have written the score by December 1873, however, these were postponed until August 1874, with the first performance in October. His fate is endurable as long as he retains the love of Carmen, but when she turns from him he is sunk in a pit of grief. After she has loved many, she is attracted by the sergeant Don José, encompasses him with her wiles, and leads him to mutiny and desertion, so that finally nothing remains for him but to join a band of smugglers of which Carmen is a member. The Spanish gypsy Carmen lives only for sensuality. There are many recordings of it, and it is frequently performed. During its time, the opera was considered a failure, denounced as "immoral" and "superficial", but now it is a staple of the standard operatic repertoire. It was first performed at the Opéra Comique of Paris on March 3, 1875. The libretto was written by Meilhac and Halévy, based on the novel by Prosper Mérimée.
Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet.
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