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Composer 1838–1875

Georges Bizet (né Alexandre César Léopold Bizet; 25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire. During a brilliant student career at the Conservatoire de Paris, Bizet won many prizes, including the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857. He was recognised as an outstanding pianist, though he chose not to capitalise on this skill and rarely performed in public. Returning to Paris after almost three years in Italy, he found that the main Parisia…

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Carmen Jones

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  • 53 Mina Kirstein Curtiss (1896–1985), writer, translator, and biographer of Georges Bizet. Her younger brother was Lincoln Kirstein, one of the most important figures in the development of ballet in the United States.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • Oscar Hammerstein II’s adaptation of Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen was a surprise hit in 1943. As Carmen Jones , the opera was transposed to the American South during World War II and employed Southern vernacular and dialect. It played for 503 performances on Broadway, toured, and with “Dat’s Love” it put Bizet on the hit parade. Its direc…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Based on the 1875 opera Carmen (music by Georges Bizet, libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy), which in turn was based on the 1845 story Carmen by Prosper Merimee.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Carmen Jones (institutional revival; book musical with preexisting music [Georges Bizet])ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • The practice of the revisal dates back centuries. When French composer Georges Bizet created Carmen to a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy in 1875, this opéra -comique contained spoken dialogue. By the time it opened in Vienna later in 1875, Carmen no longer featured spoken dialogue, but rather recitative devised by Ernest Guir…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
  • Carmen Jones (1943). Book and lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II; music: Georges Bizet. Bizet's opera Carmen transformed into an all-Negro musical play. The action is removed from Seville to a small Southern town duringtheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt

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