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Carmen Opera

Code: 020137

Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845,itself influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies (1824) by Alexander Pushkin. Mérimée had read the poem in Russian by 1840 and translated it into French in 1852.

Carmen

Music: GEORGES BIZET
conductor: DANIEL BARENBOIM
director: EMMA DANTE
with: ANITA RACHVELISHVILI, JONAS KAUFMANN, ERWIN SCHROTT
year: 2009
length: 225'

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