"12 minutes. The German-American film composer Franz Waxman composed in 1946 a similar work, ""Carmen Fantasie"". The work consists of five movements. The work is scored for piccolo and 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, tambourine, harp and strings. There is also an adaptation of the ""Carmen Fantasy"" with piano accompaniment. Carmen Fantasy (Sarasate) The Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25, by Pablo de Sarasate is a violin fantasy on themes from the opera ""Carmen"" by Georges Bizet. A version with piano accompaniment was published in 1882. The ""Carmen Fantasy"" is one of"
"Prosper Mérimée Prosper Mérimée (; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was an important French writer in the school of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, and an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella ""Carmen"", which became the basis of Bizet's opera ""Carmen"". He learned Russian and translated the work of several important Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French. From 1830 until 1860 he was the inspector of French historical"
"Charles Klein Charles Klein (January 7, 1867 – May 7, 1915) was an English-born playwright and actor who emigrated to America in 1883. Among his works was the libretto of John Philip Sousa's operetta, ""El Capitan"". Klein's talented siblings included the composer Manuel and the critic Herman Klein. He drowned during the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. Klein was born in London, England to Hermann Klein and his wife Adelaide (née Soman). Apparently, the elder Klein emigrated from Riga, Latvia. Once in Norwich, Hermann became a professor of foreign languages at the King Edward VI Grammar School, and Adelaide taught"
"Charles Dibdin Charles Dibdin (before 4 March 1745 – 25 July 1814) was a British composer, musician, dramatist, novelist and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music and performed them himself, he was in his time the most prolific English singer-songwriter. He is best known as the composer of ""Tom Bowling"", one of his many sea songs, which often features at the Last Night of the Proms. He also wrote about 30 dramatic pieces, including the operas ""The Waterman"" (1774) and ""The Quaker"" (1775), and several novels,"
"Georges Bizet Georges Bizet (; 25 October 18383 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, 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"
"Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, and was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school. Weber's operas ""Der Freischütz"", ""Euryanthe"" and ""Oberon"" greatly influenced the development of the ""Romantische Oper"" (Romantic opera) in Germany. ""Der Freischütz"" came to be regarded as the first German ""nationalist"" opera, ""Euryanthe"" developed the ""Leitmotif"" technique to an unprecedented degree, while ""Oberon"" may have influenced Mendelssohn's music for ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and, at the same time, revealed Weber's lifelong interest"
"Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period. Mendelssohn wrote symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. His best-known works include his Overture and incidental music for ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", the ""Italian Symphony"", the ""Scottish Symphony"", the overture ""The Hebrides"", his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. His ""Songs Without Words"" are his most famous solo piano compositions. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism"
"is borne out more than ever by the fact that ""Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians"" contains no article about him. Nonetheless, his Sarabande in G minor remains a standard teaching piece for intermediate violinists and violists. Carl Bohm Carl Bohm (also known as Carl Bohm, Henry Cooper [pseudonym] and Karl Bohm) (11 September 1844 – 4 April 1920) was a German pianist and composer. Bohm is regarded as one of the leading German songwriters of the 19th century, and wrote such works as ""Still as the Night"", ""Twilight"", ""May Bells"", ""Enfant Cheri"" and ""The Fountain"". The ""Oxford Companion to"
"Die Feen Die Feen (, ""The Fairies"") is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. The German libretto was written by the composer after Carlo Gozzi's ""La donna serpente"". ""Die Feen"" was Wagner's first completed opera, but remained unperformed in his lifetime. It has never established itself firmly in the operatic repertory although it receives occasional performances, on stage or in concert, most often in Germany. The opera is available on CD and in a heavily cut, adapted-for-children version, DVD. Although the music of ""Die Feen"" shows the influences of Carl Maria von Weber and other composers of the"
"Carmen: Duets & Arias Carmen: Duets & Arias is an album released in 2010 by Italian tenor, Andrea Bocelli. The album is a collection of arias of Georges Bizet's opera ""Carmen"", including duets with Welsh bass-baritone, Bryn Terfel, Russian mezzo-soprano Marina Domashenko, and Italian soprano Eva Mei, from the French opéra comique. In 2005, Bocelli recorded the opera ""Carmen"". Myung-whun Chung conducted the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Chœur de Radio France for the recording. Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, mezzo-soprano Marina Domashenko, and soprano Eva Mei, were also part of the Ensemble. In 2008, Bocelli played the role"
"display in the National Museum of Medieval History. Prosper Mérimée Prosper Mérimée (; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was an important French writer in the school of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, and an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella ""Carmen"", which became the basis of Bizet's opera ""Carmen"". He learned Russian and translated the work of several important Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French. From 1830 until"
"a five-act opera by Léo Delibes. However, it was left unfinished due to his own death in Paris at age 54. Ernest Guiraud Ernest Guiraud (; 26 June 1837 – 6 May 1892) was a French composer and music teacher born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for writing the traditional orchestral recitatives used for Bizet's opera ""Carmen"" and for Offenbach's opera ""Les contes d'Hoffmann"" (""The Tales of Hoffmann""). Guiraud began his schooling in Louisiana under the tutelage of his father, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Guiraud, who had won the Prix de Rome in 1827. At age 15, he set a"
"and in ""Les bergers"" in 1865; she toured the USA before returning to the Paris Opéra-Comique. Paola was prominent in operetta and created roles for Charles Lecocq, appearing a great deal in the USA. Galli-Marié and Irma sang together in ""Madeleine"" at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens in 1869. Célestine Galli-Marié Célestine Galli-Marié (15 March 1837 – 22 September 1905) was a French mezzo-soprano who is most famous for creating the title role in the opera ""Carmen"". She was born Marie-Célestine Laurence Marié de l'Isle in Paris. She was taught singing by her father, Mécène Marié de l'Isle, who also"
"(rechristened ""The IOU Wedding"") are frequently performed. He died from cancer at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Richard Pearlman Richard Pearlman (1938 – 8 April 2006) was an American theatre and opera director and educator known for his encyclopedic knowledge on every aspect of opera from stage direction to makeup. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Pearlman received a degree in English from Columbia University in New York, and began his career in opera as a resident stage director at the Metropolitan Opera from 1964 to 1967 where he worked with Gian Carlo Menotti, Franco Zeffirelli,"
"is placed next to one for Joseph Grimaldi. Charles Dibdin Charles Dibdin (before 4 March 1745 – 25 July 1814) was a British composer, musician, dramatist, novelist and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music and performed them himself, he was in his time the most prolific English singer-songwriter. He is best known as the composer of ""Tom Bowling"", one of his many sea songs, which often features at the Last Night of the Proms. He also wrote about 30 dramatic pieces, including the operas ""The Waterman"""
"Richard Pearlman Richard Pearlman (1938 – 8 April 2006) was an American theatre and opera director and educator known for his encyclopedic knowledge on every aspect of opera from stage direction to makeup. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Pearlman received a degree in English from Columbia University in New York, and began his career in opera as a resident stage director at the Metropolitan Opera from 1964 to 1967 where he worked with Gian Carlo Menotti, Franco Zeffirelli, Luchino Visconti and Tyrone Guthrie. While serving as assistant director for an absent Zeffirelli, Pearlman directed his first"
"Zelda Seguin Wallace Zelda Harrison Seguin Wallace (1848 – February 19, 1914) was an American opera singer and suffragist. Zelda Harrison was born in New York City. She studied voice with Ann Childe Seguin, who sang at the coronation of Queen Victoria. Zelda Harrison, a contralto, first appeared on stage in 1865, at age 17, in Saratoga Springs, New York. As Zelda Seguin she found success singing popular French and Italian operas in English translations, including with Emma Abbott in her Abbott English Opera Company. She was well known for being the first to sing the title role of ""Carmen"""
"Carmen Jones Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre. Conceptually, it is Bizet's opera ""Carmen"" updated to a World War II-era African-American setting. (Bizet's opera was, in turn, based on the 1846 novella by Prosper Mérimée.) The Broadway musical was produced by Billy Rose, using an all-black cast, and directed by Hassard Short. Robert Shaw prepared the choral portions of the show. The original Broadway production starred Muriel Smith (alternating with Muriel Rahn)"
"Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status"
"include: Stephen Paulus Stephen Paulus (August 24, 1949 – October 19, 2014) was a Grammy winning American composer, best known for his operas and choral music. His best-known piece is his 1982 opera ""The Postman Always Rings Twice"", one of several operas he composed for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, which prompted ""The New York Times"" to call him ""a young man on the road to big things"". His style is essentially tonal, and melodic and romantic by nature. He received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Foundation and won the prestigious Kennedy Center Friedheim"
"Ivan Caryll Félix Marie Henri Tilkin (12 May 1861 – 29 November 1921), better known by his pen name Ivan Caryll, was a Belgian composer of operettas and Edwardian musical comedies in the English language. He composed (or contributed to) some forty musical comedies and operettas. Caryll's career encompassed three eras of the musical theatre, and unlike some of his contemporaries, he adapted readily to each new development. After composing a few musical burlesques, his first great successes were made in light musical comedies, epitomised by the George Edwardes productions at London's Gaiety Theatre, such as ""The Shop Girl"", ""The"
"Karl Perron Karl Perron, born Karl Pergamenter and also known as Carl Perron, (3 June 1858 – 15 July 1928) was a German bass-baritone. A Kammersänger of the Dresden State Opera, he created leading roles in three operas by Richard Strauss – Jochanaan in ""Salome"", Orest in ""Elektra"", and Baron Ochs in ""Der Rosenkavalier"". Karl Perron was born in Frankenthal to one of the city's prominent families. His father was an art collector and numismatist. Another of his relatives, Phillip Perron (1840–1907), was the court sculptor to Ludwig II of Bavaria. After studies with Julius Hey in Berlin, Joseph Hasselbeck"
"Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann (29 November 1856 – 30 March 1946) was a German-Canadian composer of operettas, conductor and educator, and violinist best known for his operetta ""Leo, the Royal Cadet"". Telgmann was born in Mengeringhausen (now part of Bad Arolsen), Waldeck, Germany, to Jean Ferdinand Telgmann and Dorette Margaret Leonhardti. In 1863, at age 6 emigrated with his parents to Kingston, Ontario via New York. He began his musical studies in Canada. In 1882, with his siblings, Telgmann formed the Telgmann Concert Party, a touring ensemble. He founded, in 1892, the Kingston Conservatory of Music and School"
"Kerstin Meyer Kerstin Margareta Meyer (born April 3, 1928) is a mezzo-soprano from Stockholm, Sweden. Meyer studied singing in Stockholm with Adelaide von Skilondz, at the Salzburg Mozarteum, and in Siena, Rome, and Vienna. Her debut was at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1952 as Azucena in Verdi's ""Il trovatore"". She has remained closely associated with that company, but also performed frequently with the Hamburg State Opera, appearing there in the title role of Bizet's ""Carmen"" (1959) and creating the roles of Mrs. Claiborne in Gunther Schuller's ""The Visitation"" (1966), Alice Arden in Alexander Goehr's ""Arden Must Die"" (1967), and"
"Theodosia Abrams Fisher Theodosia Garrow (, later Fisher; ca. 1770 – 4 November 1849) was an English contralto singer who performed with her sisters, Harriett, Eliza and Jane Abrams. She was considered, with Margaret Kennedy, the leading female contralto of her time, and abandoned a promising career upon her marriage. The daughter of John Braham and Harriet Abrahams, Theodosia Abrams was born into a Jewish family that probably moved to England following an Hanoverian minister to the English court. John Braham with Harriet Abrams and their two daughters, Harriet and Theodosia Abrams, were portrayed in a pencil with watercolour in"
"orchestras. In 1883, the Spanish violinist and composer Pablo de Sarasate (1844–1908) wrote a ""Carmen Fantasy"" for violin, described as ""ingenious and technically difficult"". Ferruccio Busoni's 1920 piece, Piano Sonatina No. 6 (Fantasia da camera super Carmen), is based on themes from ""Carmen"". In 1967, the Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin adapted parts of the ""Carmen"" music into a ballet, the ""Carmen Suite"", written specifically for his wife Maya Plisetskaya, then the Bolshoi Ballet's principal ballerina. The character ""Carmen"" has been a regular subject of film treatment since the earliest days of cinema. The films were made in various languages and"
"liked writing operas on literary themes. Gounod's ""Faust"" (1859), based on the drama by Goethe, became an enormous worldwide success. Gounod followed it with ""Mireille"" (1864), based on the Provençal epic by Frédéric Mistral, and the Shakespeare-inspired ""Roméo et Juliette"" (1867). Bizet offered the Théâtre Lyrique ""Les pêcheurs de perles"" (1863) and ""La jolie fille de Perth"", but his biggest triumph was written for the Opéra-Comique. ""Carmen"" (1875) is now perhaps the most famous of all French operas. Early critics and audiences, however, were shocked by its unconventional blend of romantic passion and realism. Another figure unhappy with the Parisian"
"and opera and comedy"", and a national musical printing house was established. In the Baroque-era, noted composers included Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and François Couperin. The ""Conservatoire de Musique de Paris"" was founded in 1795. By 1870, Paris had become an important centre for symphony, ballet and operatic music. Romantic-era composers (in Paris) include Hector Berlioz (""La Symphonie fantastique""), Charles Gounod (""Faust""), Camille Saint-Saëns (""Samson et Delilah""), Léo Delibes (""Lakmé"") and Jules Massenet (""Thaïs""), among others. Georges Bizet's ""Carmen"" premiered 3 March 1875. ""Carmen"" has since become one of the most popular and frequently-performed operas in the classical canon. Among"
"She had been married with the theatre director Paul Wiecke since 1916 and had two children. Irma Tervani Irma Tervani, stage name of Irma Achté, (1887–1936) was a Finnish contralto opera singer who performed at the Finnish Opera in Helsinki and at the Dresden Royal Opera. She is remembered for her interpretation of ""Carmen"" and for her Wagnerian roles. Born on 4 June 1887 in Helsinki, Irma Achté was the daughter of the opera singer Emmy Achté née Strömer and the conductor Lorenz Nicolai Achté. Her younger sister, Aino Ackté, was a celebrated international operatic soprano. First taught by her"
"Carmen (novella) Carmen is a novella by Prosper Mérimée, written and first published in 1845. It has been adapted into a number of dramatic works, including the famous opera of the same name by Georges Bizet. According to a letter Mérimée wrote to the Countess of Montijo, ""Carmen"" was inspired by a story she told him on his visit to Spain in 1830. He said, ""It was about that ruffian from Málaga who had killed his mistress, who consecrated herself exclusively to the public. [...] As I have been studying the Gypsies for some time, I have made my heroine"
"Carmen Suites (Bizet/Guiraud) The Carmen Suites are two suites of orchestral music drawn from the music of Georges Bizet's 1875 opera ""Carmen"" and compiled posthumously by his friend Ernest Guiraud. They adhere very closely to Bizet's orchestration. Guiraud also wrote the recitatives for ""Carmen"", and compiled the second of the two suites from Bizet's ""L'Arlésienne"" incidental music. Each of the ""Carmen Suites"" contains six numbers. Both suites have been performed and recorded many times. Suite No. 1 was published in c. 1882. The Aragonaise was also used by Pablo de Sarasate in his ""Carmen Fantasy"" for violin and orchestra and"
"Kern was due to sail with Charles Frohman from New York to London on board the RMS ""Lusitania"", but Kern missed the boat, having overslept after staying up late playing poker. Frohman died in the sinking of the ship. Kern composed 16 Broadway scores between 1915 and 1920 and also contributed songs to the London hit ""Theodore & Co"" (1916; most of the songs are by the young Ivor Novello) and to revues like the Ziegfeld Follies. The most notable of his scores were those for a series of shows written for the Princess Theatre, a small (299-seat) house built"
"Selective bibliography Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying"