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The Black Dog Opera Library is the best, easiest and most informative and budget-friendly way to enjoy four of the greatest operas of all time.

When he first heard Carmen, Tchaikovsky enthusiastically predicted it would become the world's most popular opera. Wagner, too, was an admirer of this dramatic masterpiece, and Brahms claimed to have seen it 29 times. At its premiere in Paris in 1873, however, Carmen... Read Full Overview

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Carmen, histoire espagnole? Pas dans l'esprit de M rim e, qui contourne avec ironie l'hispanisme castillan des romantiques et montre les confins de la p ninsule: en Andalousie, entre S ville et Gibraltar, l'amour fou d'un Basque d racin pour une... Read Full Overview

Carmen" is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The opera, which became Bizet's most famous work, was first performed at the Op ra-Comique in Paris, on March 3, 1875, and was not at first particularly successful; its initial run extended to 36 performances... Read Full Overview

Carmen is a novella by Prosper M?rim?e, written and first published in 1845. It has been adapted into a number of dramatic works, including the famous opera of the same name by Georges Bizet.According to a letter M?rim?e wrote to the Countess of Montijo, Carmen was inspired by... Read Full Overview

I have been told that one day a party of good-for-nothing fellows banded themselves together, and bribed the bell-ringer at the cathedral to ring the Angelus some twenty minutes before the proper hour. Though it was still broad daylight, the nymphs of the Guadalquivir never hesitated,... Read Full Overview

The novella that was the basis for perhaps the most popular opera of all time, Prosper Merimee's Carmen is the swashbuckling story of a nineteenth-century Spanish soldier who deserts his post to pursue the fiery gypsy beauty, Carmen-who is as brave as she is fickle. The opera's... Read Full Overview

Carmen (1845) by Prosper M rim e is the original novella that inspired the classic opera by Bizet.The unforgettable story of Carmen, a flirtatious, charismatic, and amoral gypsy who bewitches and emotionally enslaves Don Jos , a desperate man, into a tragic obsession, has captivated... Read Full Overview