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Carmen's habanera from act 1, and the toreador's song "Votre toast" from act 2, are among the most popular and best-known of all operatic arias, [70] the latter "a splendid piece of swagger" according to Newman, "against which the voices and the eyebrows of purists have long been raised in vain". [71]
Carmen is a ballet created by Roland Petit and his company 'Les Ballets de Paris' at the Prince's Theatre in London on 21 February 1949, which has entered the repertory of ballet companies in France and around the world.
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The show premiered on October 9, 1988 at the Teatro Calderón de Madrid. José Carlos Plaza directed, with Juan Cánovas providing music. The cast consisted of Concha Velasco, Tito Valverde, Pedro Mari Sánchez, Toni Cantó, Juan Carlos Martín, Natalia Duarte, Paco Morales, and Tony Cruz. Funds for its production came from a private company. [1]
Held in spring 2021 at Madrid’s Fernán Gómez Theater, the exhibition Carlos Saura and Dance began with a wall panel of B&W photos the director took at the 1956 Granada Intl. Festival of Music ...
The opera's music has been mutilated. The concept has to be rethought. I have grave doubts as to whether the ballet can be redone." [10] Not long after the meeting with Furtseva, Shostakovich called the ministry about Carmen Suite. He told Furtseva that he considered the ballet both a masterly transcription and highly effective dance music. [10]
The Toreador Song, also known as the Toreador March, is the popular name for the aria " Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre" ("I return your toast to you"), from the French opera Carmen, composed by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.