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Risë Stevens (/ ˈ r iː s ə /; June 11, 1913 – March 20, 2013) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano and actress. Beginning in 1938, she sang for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for more than two decades during the 1940s and 1950s. She was most noted for her portrayals of the central character in Carmen by Georges Bizet. [1]
This is a discography of audio and video recordings of Carmen, a French-language opera by Georges Bizet. The opera premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875. Carmen is one of the most frequently recorded operas, dating back to a near-complete German acoustical recording in 1908.
Bizet, having removed during rehearsals his first version of Carmen's entrance song, in 3 4 with a refrain in 6 8, rewrote the Habanera several times before he (and Galli-Marié) were satisfied with it. [1] Nietzsche, an enthusiastic admirer of Carmen, commented on the "ironically provocative" aria evoking "Eros as conceived by the ancients ...
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.
Lift 'Em Up and Put 'Em Down (Avec la garde montante in Bizet's original opera) – Street Boys; Honey Gal o' Mine – Male Chorus; Good Luck, Mr. Flyin' Man! – Female Chorus; Dat's Love (Habanera in Bizet's opera) – Carmen and Chorus; You Talk Just like My Maw (Parle-moi de ma mère in Bizet's opera)– Joe and Cindy Lou; Murder-Murder ...
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Carmen sings the "Habanera", act 1. Bizet, who had never visited Spain, sought out appropriate ethnic material to provide an authentic Spanish flavour to his music. [25] Carmen's habanera is based on an idiomatic song, "El arreglito", by the Spanish composer Sebastián Yradier (1809–65).
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