At its premiere in Paris in 1875 the French critics thought Georges Bizet’s Carmen, with its prostitution, lust, violence and murder, was scandalous and obscene. They found the music garish. The opera ...
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With flamboyant, hedonistic abandon, Violetta’s life as an up-market courtesan whirls her through the ballrooms and bedrooms of vibrant Parisian high society and, as she recovers from a bout of ...
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Bizet’s Carmen, the world’s most popular opera for well over a century now, bursts with sizzling sexuality, tense excitement, passion, romance, jealousy and murder, and it has sensational ...
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Giuseppe Verdi knew his opera of love, war, revenge and death was old-fashioned but he also knew that old-fashioned 19th century audiences loved arias, romantic melodramas and songs lavished with melo ...
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