'Carmen' est un opéra en quatre actes du compositeur français Georges Bizet. L'opéra, qui est devenu le plus célèbre oeuvre de Bizet, a été réalisée à l'Opéra-Comique à Paris, le 3 Mars 1875, et n'était pas à la première particulièrement réussie- sa course initiale étendu à 36 représentations. Avant cette course a été conclu, Bizet est mort subitement, et donc ne savait rien de célébrité plus tard l'opéra. C'est le Choeur de l'oeuvre, avec des textes français et anglais, et sans accompagnement notée. 79 pages, 7 de 8 ½ pouces. / Opéra

Standard Version with sung recitatives-Although almost unanimously condemned by contemporary Parisian critics for its overt sexuality and graphic final scene Carmen ultimately reached the public in a way that perhaps no other opera has. Bizet's aim (with Meilhac andHalevy who wrote the libretto) had been to transform the flaccid moralistic bourgeois genre of opéra comique into a more sophisticated type of staged work and he seems to have suceeded in Carmen. Each character has a musicalsignificance and a unique expressive idiom the ultimate example being the dangerous exotic sensual Carmen herself depicted by an exotic and sinewy chromatic motive that also implies the insurmountable power of fate. In aclassic plot device she is contrasted with the 'good girl' of the opera Micaela whose main aria is set in the ternary form of the elevated bel canto French Grand Opera aria to imply her traditionally 'ladylike' retiring nature.Don José's musical styles reflect different levels in his descent from dutiful soldier to the underworld of obsession.This is the Schirmer edition of the Libretto in the original French with an English translation by Ruthand Thomas Martin.

/ Saxophone Tenor Et Soprano / 24 pages / niveau : Facile - Elémentaire / Partition + Cd