Opera “Carmen”, WD 31

Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy after Prosper Mérimée’s novella. First performed on 3 March 1875 at the Paris Opéra-Comique. The original production used spoken...Read more

Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy after Prosper Mérimée’s novella. First performed on 3 March 1875 at the Paris Opéra-Comique. The original production used spoken dialogue, which Ernest Guiraud later replaced with recitatives. French libretto from the 1875 edition — https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Carmen_(op%C3%A9ra)

Main score composed in 1873–1874; Prelude, entr’actes and rehearsal revisions continued before the 1875 premiere.

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