For a while it shared the theater with the much more popular Verdi Requiem which the LSO will perform next October. Over the next year, the opera had 48 performances at the Opéra-Comique, often to half empty houses. Yet foreign audiences took to it immediately It was so original and complex when compared to the company’s usual fare that audiences may have been bewildered. The first performance lasted four and a half hours. The chorus and orchestra didn’t like their parts. A licentious gypsy who is murdered by an army deserter was asking a lot of the company’s usual clientele. It was written for the Opéra-Comique where ‘family’ fare was the norm. Why did Carmen initially fail? There are many reasons. There’s other interesting music, as well, but until Carmen he was just a promising composer. He wrote a symphony as a graduation exercise which was lost and not performed until 1935. The Met will do it next season for the first time in almost a century. He wrote an opera, The Pearl Fishers, in 1863 which is only recently being performed with some regularity.
His earlier work is good, but not anywhere near the level of Carmen. Regardless of cause, Bizet’s demise before he could even begin work on another opera is a loss that is still palpable. His death, at age 36, has been attributed to heart disease but has never been definitively defined.
Like The Barber of Seville, La Traviata, and Madame Butterfly it forms the quartet of sublime masterpieces that were unsuccessful (or even fiascos) when they were first performed.Ĭarmen’s initial failure is especially poignant as Bizet died three months after its unsuccessful premiere in 1875. Carmen’s popularity is worldwide, yet the work started as a failure. Below are the Program Notes I wrote for the occasion.īizet’s great opera recently had its 1000th performance at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House. Retrieved 13 April 2016.The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra will present two concert performances of Carmen – May 1 and 2.
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Son, Dennis Dragon (1947-2017), drummer for the surf band Surf Punks also appeared in some live concerts with the Byrds shortly before they disbanded in 1973, also produced much of Captain & Tennille's music.Dragon (JanuJuly 11, 2010), classical harpist Son, Daryl Dragon (AugJanuary 2, 2019) of the 1970s pop music duo Captain & Tennille.Carmen Dragon died of cancer, aged 69, in a Santa Monica, California hospital, on March 28, 1984.
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