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Petite suite, orchestrations made by Bizet in 1872 of five movements from his Jeux d’enfants Scènes bohémiennes , an orchestral suite made by Bizet in 1874 from his opera La jolie fille de Perth Suite No. 1 from the above-listed incidental music for Daudet’s L’Arlésienne , compiled in 1872 by Bizet himself
Pages in category "Operas by Georges Bizet" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Carmen; D.
Carmen (French: ⓘ) is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet.The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.
Georges Bizet was born in Paris on 25 October 1838. He was registered as Alexandre César Léopold, but baptised as "Georges" on 16 March 1840, and was known by this name for the rest of his life.
Bizet re-used some music from earlier pieces and also recycled other sections in later works: Act 1. Duet for Young Bulgarian and Marie – used as the second part of the prelude to La jolie fille de Perth; Act 1. Temrouk "Ah! Laisse-moi ma fille" – used in Bizet's completion of Fromental Halévy's opera Noé; Act 2.
Operas with entries in The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera ed. Paul Gruber (Thames and Hudson, 1993). ISBN 0-393-03444-5 and/or Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas ed. John W Freeman (Norton, 1984). ISBN 0-393-01888-1; List of operas and their composers in Who's Who in British Opera ed. Nicky Adam (Scolar Press, 1993).
Bizet's first opera, the one-act Le docteur Miracle, was written in 1856 when the 18-year-old composer was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris. Georges Bizet in the early 1860s It was Bizet's winning entry in a competition organised by the celebrated composer Jacques Offenbach , and gained him a cash award, a gold medal, and a performance ...
The following is a list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer and the year of the first performance also given. For a list of operas sorted by name of composer, see List of operas by composer.