Carmen
composer: Georges Bizet
editor: Robert Didion
librettist: Henri Meilhac - Ludovic Halévy
author of original text: Prosper Mérimée
German edition: Josef Heinzelmann
Opéra-comique in vier Akten
Nach der Novelle von Prosper Mérimée von Henri Meilhac und Ludovic Halévy
Deutsch von Josef Heinzelmann
Kritisch herausgegeben von Robert Didion
Dedication: Georges Bizet hat Carmen dem Dirigenten und Musikorganisator Jules-Etienne Pasdeloup gewidmet. Ohne Friedrich K. Wanek wäre diese Ausgabe nicht zustandegekommen. Herausgeber und Verlag widmen sie seinem Andenken.
Orchestra instrumentation: 2 (beide auch Picc.) · 2 (2. auch Engl. Hr.) · 2 · 2 - 4 · 2 (Pistons) · 3 · 0 - P. S. (Trgl. · Beck. · Tamb. · kl. Tr. · gr. Tr. · Kast.) (2 Spieler) - Hfe. - Str. -
Bühnenmusik: 2 Pistons · 2 Pos.
Cast of characters: Don José · Tenor - Escamillo · Bariton - Dancaïro · Tenor - Remendado · Tenor - Morales, Brigadier · Bariton - Zuniga, Leutnant · Tenor - Carmen · Mezzo-Sopran - Micaëla · Sopran - Mercedes · Sopran - Frasquita · Sopran - Eine Orangenverkäuferin · Sopran - Ein Zigeuner · Bass - Lillas Pastia, Wirt · Sprechrolle - Ein Führer · Sprechrolle - Ein Soldat · Sprechrolle - Ein alter Herr, seine junge Frau, ein junger Mann, der Alcade · stumme Rollen - Soldaten, junge Männer, Männer aus dem Volk, Zigarrenarbeiterinnen, Zigeunerinnen, Zigeuner, fliegende Händler etc. · Chor - Gassenjungen · Kinderchor
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 170' 0''
Year of composition: 1875
Edition: full score
Language: French - German
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When the curtain rose for the first performance of the new critical edition of Georges Bizet's masterpiece at the Frankfurt Opera on 7 March 1992, it represented a milestone in the perception of this opera, one of the most frequently performed in the international repertoire.
Editor Robert Didion and translator Joseph Heinzelmann have solved the basic textual issues that have dogged the opera since its inception. After exact philological analyses of all available manuscript sources, especially the piano score and the printed editions of the libretto published under the original authors' supervision, they have put together a correct text of the work which has all later additions and omissions eliminated and 'corresponds to the version which the opera came up with in the wake of its first scenic rehearsals and which was the only one sanctioned by the authors, by the composer as well as by the librettists' [quoted from the preface of the score].
Since then, this critical edition of Carmen has become the established performance reference throughout the world, with a large number of stage productions.
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