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The Toreador Song, also known as the Toreador March or March of the Toreadors, 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.
The 'Carmen' film will, in its own way, stand alongside 'The Birth of a Nation' as an epochmaker," Photoplay said in their review. One of their few complaints was on the film's faithfulness to Carmen's character of the Mérimée story. [11] The New-York Tribune described it as "The most interesting example of the new art of the photoplay. Miss ...
Les Toréadors (A major) – Theme from prelude to act 1 and Procession of the Toreadors from act 4: "Les voici! voici la quadrille des Toreros!". Suite No. 1 was published c. 1882. [2] The Aragonaise was also used by Pablo de Sarasate in his Carmen Fantasy for violin and orchestra and by Franz Waxman in his own Carmen Fantasie.
Carmen: Duets & Arias is an album released in 2010 by Italian tenor, Andrea Bocelli. [2] The album is a collection of arias of Georges Bizet 's opera Carmen , including duets with Welsh bass-baritone , Bryn Terfel , Russian mezzo-soprano Marina Domashenko , and Italian soprano Eva Mei , from the French opéra comique .
The opera is based on Part III of the story and omits many elements, such as Carmen's husband. It greatly increases the role of other characters, such as the Dancaïre, [d] who is only a minor character in the story; the Remendado, [e] who one page after he is introduced is wounded by soldiers and then shot by Carmen's husband to keep him from slowing the gang down; and Lucas (renamed ...
Despite the change in mode there is no actual modulation in the aria, and the implied pedal point D is maintained throughout. The vocal range covers D 4 to F ♯ 5 with a tessitura from D 4 to D 5. Although Bizet borrowed the melody from a song by Iradier he developed it "with his inimitable harmonic style and haunting habanera rhythm". [9]
Of Horowitz's many transcriptions, the "Carmen Variations" was the only work to remain in his repertoire throughout his career. He played the Variations from his earliest concerts in the 1920s, when he delighted his audiences with the "show stopping" encore, through to his golden jubilee season in 1978, over 50 years later.
Carmen Laroux (September 4, 1909 – August 24, 1942) was a Mexican film actress. Born in Durango , Mexico, she appeared in 19 films between 1927 and 1941 . Laroux is best known for her appearance as Señorita Rita in the Three Stooges film Saved by the Belle (1939).