In a letter dated October 1866, was French composer Georges Bizet (1838-1875) straight to the opera: “As a musician, I tell you, if you were to adultery, to suppress fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, it would be no longer afford to write a note. ”
The wonder of opera and gifted pianist, sprinkled a lot of human experience in his popular opera Carmen. It is probably still the most popular opera in the world 135 years after his death from a heart attack only thirty-six. As a spectacular staging, an opera, the granularity of the real characters and events was created. Carmen ran a new kind of opera, which has prepared the ground for Cavallaria Rusticana by Mascagni, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and Puccini’s La Boheme. Fly on the wall stuff, it was the forerunner of today’s television soap operas. This is the life warts and all.
Uncertain legal
Carmen is the story of a factory worker coquettish belle of dubious morality. For the female list it uses, abuses and seduces her way through a rich mosaic of the gypsies, thieves, soldiers and smugglers. Her coquetry finally brings an end to the tempting sticky wins at the point of a knife in the hands of his jealous lovers: The finale of the exciting drama outside the ring as his lover over his adversary of the hero types veal.
George Bizet was a handsome bearded man not unlike his contemporary Peter Tchaikovsky. This French composer of the most celebrated musical masterpiece Spain very happy in his own compositions, but was surprised when they never won the hearts and minds. He has for his part not to appreciate fully Carmen, achieve considerable success and made him a household name in the world.
A professional Damned
It’s a secret that the young Bizet Carmen could be a flop check. From the beginning he has the considerable sum of 25,000 francs was paid, and received the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. His opera Risk received about 37 shows impressive. Had he lived only three months, he saw Carmen and the triumph in three years, he played sold-out worldwide. “Ah, music!” He is quoted as saying: “What unhappy for a beautiful art, but what kind of job.”
Bizet was just a wonderful opera, if you can not deny that Carmen successful than his less well-known opera, The Pearl Fishers. His famous duo The Pearl Fishers (In the depths of the temple) has been repeatedly chosen by radio listeners as their all time favorite piece of classical music. For the pure music of Bizet’s musical fantasy set to play Alphonse Daudet Arlésienne takes a few shots.
Better than Mozart
The composer is the automatic deletion level of the greatest composers in the history of childhood. Before reaching his eighteenth birthday, he had his first symphony, which says, composed to rival anything composed by Mozart or Mendelssohn, as they were still teenagers. He also won a competition organized by theater impresario Jacques Offenbach, and later received the coveted Prix de Rome. Gustav Mahler, one of the greatest composers of orchestral music ever considered Djamileh Bizet’s masterpiece.
Such was the man who looks on his death bed, even a failure. At last count there were fourteen screen versions of Carmen, not forgetting the famous stage version Hammerstein Carmen Jones (1945). One wonders what this remarkable composer might consider success.
