Bizet was commissioned to write The Pearl Fishers (Les Pecheurs de Perles) when he was but 24, ten years before he went on to perturb the public with the passionate, murderous tragedy of Carmen, whose ...
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The Ukrainian National Opera of Dnipro is currently touring Great Britain for two months, filling theatres everywhere for performances of Madam Butterfly sandwiched with Carmen and a handful of Aidas. ...
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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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