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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.
Carmen is delighted to learn of José's release from two months' detention. Outside, a chorus and procession announces the arrival of the toreador Escamillo ("Vivat, vivat le Toréro"). Invited inside, he introduces himself with the "Toreador Song" ("Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre") and sets his sights on Carmen, who brushes him aside ...
The peculiar tragic nobility of Bocelli's voice is perfectly suited to the role of Don José, but the clinching elements are the supporting performances, particularly Marina Domashenko in the title role, whose plummily graceful tones bring just the right note of quixotic disdain to the part; and Bryn Terfel, who delivers the "Toreador's Song ...
The Carmen Suites are two suites of orchestral music drawn from the music of Georges Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen and compiled posthumously by his friend Ernest Guiraud. They adhere very closely to Bizet's orchestration. However the order of the musical allusions are in reversed chronological order, and do not adhere to the operatic versions ...
The music is taken from the 1875 opera of the same name by Georges Bizet, arranged and re-orchestrated by Tommy Desserre. The scenario is based on the 1845 novella by Prosper Mérimée . The principal roles were created for Petit's wife-to-be Zizi Jeanmaire (Carmen), Roland Petit (Don José) and Serge Perrault (Le Toréador).
Beat Out Dat Rhythm on a Drum (Gypsy Song in Bizet's opera) – Frankie, Chorus; Stan' Up and Fight (Toreador Song, also known as March of the Toreadors in Bizet's opera) – Husky Miller and Chorus; Whizzin' Away Along de Track (Quintet (Nous avons en tête une affaire) in Bizet's opera) – Rum, Dink, Myrt, Frankie, and Carmen
Later, in 1924, he made an obscure (and poorly recorded) group of records for the Homophone company. Amato made just one known electrical recording—the live-recorded soundtrack of the 1927 Vitaphone short, "A Neapolitan Romance," which featured Amato performing "Torna a Surriento" and the Toreador song from Carmen, sung in Italian
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