Carmen di G. Bizet ARENA DI VERONA 87° FESTIVAL LIRICO
Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Meilhac and Halévy, based on the story of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.
The opera was premiered at the Opéra Comique of Paris on March 3, 1875. For a year after its premiere, it was considered a failure, denounced by critics as "immoral" and "superficial".
In Autumn it became part of the Wien season, where no “comique” operas took place before: Bizet had to change the version into a different one. In the meanwhile, he died, so his friend Guiraud worked on it and he published his own version in 1877: this opera is now known by everyone.
Today, it is one of the world's most popular operas and a staple of the standard operatic repertoire. Carmen appears as number four on Opera America's list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America.
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