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Photo: Bill Rafferty
English National Opera 2001, Jonathan Miller, dir
Bizet - Clare Grundman
Carmen
(1873-75)Opera in four acts in the reduced orchestral version by Clare Grundman
Duration: 140 minutes
English
Deutsch
Music Text
Text by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, after Prosper Mérimée's novel, with recitatives by Ernest Guiraud (F,E)
Scoring
Major roles: lyrS,M,T,Bar; minor roles: 2M,T,hBar,Bar,B,2speakers;
children's chorus; chorus
1.1.1.1-1.2.1.0-perc(1):timp/tgl/tamb/SD/cast/cym-strings
Abbreviations (PDF)
Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
Availability
World Premiere
03/03/1875Opera-Comique, Paris
Company: Opera-Comique
Roles
| DON JOSÉ, a corporal of dragoons | Tenor |
| ESCAMILLO, a matador | Baritone |
| EL DANCAIRO, a smuggler | Tenor |
| EL REMENDADO, a smuggler | Tenor |
| ZUNIGA, a captain | Bass |
| MORALÈS, an officer | Baritone |
| MICAELA, a peasant girl | Soprano |
| FRASQUITA, a gipsy | Soprano |
| MERCÉDÈS, a gipsy | Soprano |
| CARMEN, a cigarette girl | Mezzo-Soprano |
| Innkeeper, Guide, Officers, Dragoons, Boys, Cigarette Girls, Gipsies, Smugglers etc | Chorus |
Time and Place
Seville, Spain, c.1830
Moods
Dramatic, Romantic, Tragic
Subjects