Bizet came from a very musical family – his father was a composer and his mother was a pianist – and his own musical talents were obvious from an early age. In fact, he was such a talented child that ...
Rinat Shaham has played the role of Carmen in hundreds of different productions all over the world. Loading Rinat's Carmen is unforgiving and gutsy — both in manor and voice — backed up by the Opera ...
Mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča sings the habanera from Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2016 - Preview Julie Andrews hosts the ...
Virginia Opera presents French composer Georges Bizet’s passion-filled masterpiece Carmen, one of the most popular operas of all time, with recognizable arias including “The Habanera” and “The ...
After the composer’s one-act opera Djamileh (1871), a director of Paris’s Opéra-Comique, Camille du Locle, suggested that Bizet collaborate with two of Paris’s leading librettists: Henri Meilhac and ...
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Set in Spain and sung in French, George Bizet’s Carmen has some of the most famous melodies and characters in any opera. The opera opens outside a cigarette factory in Seville, where soldiers have ...
Elīna Garanča Sings the Habanera with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča sings the habanera from Georges Bizet's "Carmen" with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
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