Music #365 - Bizet

Georges Bizet 

(1838-1875)

In a career cut short by his early death, this French composer mainly of operas, achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen.   

Carmen  

Bizet is well-known for his opera (in French) Carmen, the name of this wild factory gypsy girl in Sèville (/səˈvɪl/), Spain.
- Opera comique - with French subtitles 
- Topless performers

Some well-known extracts:
* Prelude 
* Habanera: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle  (Love is a rebellious bird)
* Seguidilla: Près de remparts de Sèville  (Near the ramparts of Seville)
* Avec La Garde Montante  (Street Boys March)
* Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre  (Your toast, I can make it)

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Bonus:
* 葛蘭 in 卡門 電影《野玫瑰之戀》 

* 羅文＆梅艷芳

* 陳美鳳

L'Arlesienne Suite / The Girl from Arles 

- love tragedy in ballet presentation

* Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  Part 5  Part 6

Totaling about 37 minutes.

* Flashmob at Paris North Station

Les pêcheurs de perles 

/ The Pearl Fishers opera

Act 1 - Romance, No. 4 - Nadir's aria

Je crois entendre encore / I think I still hear song 

- by Alain Vanzo - with French lyrics to sing along 

- by Yasuharu Nakajima - with English subtitles 
- by David Gilmour - a modern interpretation
 It is simply beautiful. 

Symphony in C

was completed by Bizet at age 17.
- Ricardo Araujo conducting  
Totaling about 38 minutes
     

Professor Rogoff gives an interesting briefing on Symphony in C.

In 1947, George Balanchine adopted Symphony in C to ballet, as beautifully performed by the following companies:

* Houston Ballet   (cute dolly ballerinas)

* Miami City Ballet:   Part 1   Part 2   
   

See the ballerinas' chopstick legs in amazingly beautiful ballet movements?