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 Musical drama by Georges Bizet in two acts Music Director and Conductor: Alexandru Samoil. Conductor: Andrey Lebedev. Stage Director: Yuri Alexandrov. The most popular opera in the world is now at the Novaya Opera! We present the premiere of Carmen by Georges Bizet. The Bizet opera is familiar even to those who have never been to an opera house, and probably everyone can hum the “Habanera” and the “Toreador Song”. However, the opera’s premiere in Paris (1875) was a failure: the audience left the hall without watching the performance to the end, and critics almost competed - who would write a more devastating review. The point is that the composer called his work a comic opera due to its ‘technical characteristics’: the heroes of serious operas were kings or gods, while the characters in Carmen are gypsies, smugglers, soldiers and factory workers. People expected to see an easy entertainment show but got a story full of ‘base’ passions and ending with the death of the main character!
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