The creation of this adaptation is not easy: between the demands of the interpreter of the role of Carmen, musicians who struggle with the score and singers whose performance leaves something to be desired, the rehearsals are complicated to say the least. The challenge was great, as the story had to be toned down to make it less violent than in Mérimée’s novella.
He called on Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy to write the libretto for this opera, which was to be performed at the Opéra-Comique, with which the composer was under contract. Portrait of Georges Bizet by Etienne CarjatĬaptivated by orientalism, Georges Bizet (1838-1875) fell in love with Mérimée’s novella, which he wanted to transpose into an opera.
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