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composer: Georges Bizet
editor: Kurt Pahlen
librettist: Henri Meilhac - Ludovic Halévy
author of original text: Prosper Mérimée
collaboration: Rosmarie König

Einführung und Kommentar

Premiere: 3. März 1875 Opéra Comique Paris
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 180' 0''
Year of composition: 1873/75
Edition: text/libretto
Language: French - German
Series: Operas of the world
Series: Series Music
Edition description: Originalausgabe, 6. Auflage 2005
351 Pages - Paperback/Soft Cover
ISBN: 978-3-254-08002-8
Order number: SEM 8002

Price: 9.95 €
including VAT and plus delivery

Carmen
study score

The Flying Dutchman

The Silver Tassie

Fidelio

Carmen
piano reduction

Based on the subject of the eponymous novella by Prosper Mérimée, 'Carmen' is George Bizet's last work. The composer died a few weeks after the unsuccessful world premiere in Paris on 3 March 1875. To the opera-lover of today, it is inconceivable that this work with its numerous wonderful 'Spanish' melodies and rhythms – developed by Bizet virtually 'from afar' as he had never travelled through Spain – could ever be a failure. Over the course of time, however, 'Carmen' has become one of the most popular and most frequently played operas long since.

Apart from the libretto, this edition contains introductory commentaries of Kurt Pahlen who also adds information on the compositional structure and context to the musical as well as external and internal dramatic action of the opera. A short synopsis and a brief outline of the genesis bring the work into relation with the composer's entire oeuvre and life, thus offering a comprehensive, richly illustrated introduction.

Zur Aufführung
Textbuch (Französisch-Deutsch) mit Erläuterungen zu Musik und Handlung
Inhalt anhand der Szenen und Musiknummern
Zur Geschichte der Oper "Carmen"
"Carmen" in Schlagworten
Kurze Biografie Bizets

ETP 8062 = study score
ED 7965 = piano reduction
LS 983-1 = performance material