Carmen
''Carmen'' () 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. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalised its first audiences. Bizet died suddenly after the 33rd performance, unaware that the work would achieve international acclaim within the following ten years. ''Carmen'' has since become one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the classical canon; the "Habanera" and "Seguidilla" from act 1 and the "Toreador Song" from act 2 are among the best known of all operatic arias.The opera is written in the genre of ''opéra comique'' with musical numbers separated by dialogue. It is set in southern Spain and tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the wiles of the fiery gypsy Carmen. José abandons his childhood sweetheart and deserts from his military duties, yet loses Carmen's love to the glamorous torero Escamillo, after which José kills her in a jealous rage. The depictions of proletarian life, immorality, and lawlessness, and the tragic death of the main character on stage, broke new ground in French opera and were highly controversial.
After the premiere, most reviews were critical, and the French public was generally indifferent. ''Carmen'' initially gained its reputation through a series of productions outside France, and was not revived in Paris until 1883. Thereafter, it rapidly acquired popularity at home and abroad. Later commentators have asserted that ''Carmen'' forms the bridge between the tradition of ''opéra comique'' and the realism or ''verismo'' that characterised late 19th-century Italian opera.
The music of ''Carmen'' has since been widely acclaimed for brilliance of melody, harmony, atmosphere, and orchestration, and for the skill with which the emotions and suffering of the characters are represented. At his death Bizet was still in the midst of revising his score and because of other later changes (notably the introduction of recitatives composed by Ernest Guiraud in place of the original dialogue) there is still no definitive edition of the opera. The opera has been recorded many times since the first acoustical recording in 1908, and the story has been the subject of many screen and stage adaptations. Provided by Wikipedia
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3261by Laiz-Carrión, R. (Raúl), Cabrero, Á. (Águeda), Quintanilla-Hervás, J.M. (José María), Hernández-de-Rojas, A. (Alma), Uriarte-Ramalho, A. (Amaya), Gago, J. (Jesús), Rodríguez, J.M. (José María), Piñeiro-Álvarez, C.G. (Carmen Gloria), García-García, A. (Alberto), Saborido-Rey, FranciscoGet access
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3262by Chernyh, Nikolay A., Neukirchen, Sinje, Frolov, Evgenii N., Sousa, Filipa L., Miroshnichenko, Margarita L., Merkel, Alexander Y., Pimenov, Nikolay V., Sorokin, Dimitry Y., Ciordia, Sergio, Mena, Maria Carmen, Ferrer, Manuel, Golyshin, Peter, Lebedinsky, Alexander V., Cardoso Pereira, Ines A., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Elizaveta A.Get access
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3263by Villamor, B. (Begoña), Carrera, P. (Pablo), Castro, J. (José), Ramos, F. (Fernando), Velasco, F. (Francisco), Sobrino, I. (Ignacio), Navarro, M.R. (María Rosario), Gancedo, R.M. (Rosa María), Hernández, C. (Carmen), Marín, M. (Manuel), Blanco, M. (Marian), Tornero, J. (Jorge), Burgos, C. (Candelaria)Get access
Published 2017
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3264Allometric relationships of ecologically important Antarctic and Arctic zooplankton and fish speciesby Schaafsma, Fokje L., David, Carmen L., Kohlbach, Doreen, Ehrlich, Julia, Castellani, Giulia, Lange, Benjamin A., Vortkamp, Martina, Meijboom, André, Fortuna-Wünsch, Anna, Immerz, Antonia, Cantzler, Hannelore, Klasmeier, Apasiri, Zakharova, Nadezhda, Schmidt, Katrin, Van de Putte, Anton P., van Franeker, Jan Andries, Flores, HaukeGet access
Published in Polar Biology (2022)
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3265by do Prado, Fernanda Dotti, Vera, Manuel, Hermida, Miguel, Bouza, Carmen, Pardo, Belén G., Vilas, Román, Blanco, Andrés, Fernández, Carlos, Maroso, Francesco, Maes, Gregory E., Turan, Cemal, Volckaert, Filip A. M., Taggart, John B., Carr, Adrian, Ogden, Rob, Nielsen, Einar Eg, Martínez, PaulinoGet access
Published in Evolutionary Applications (2018)
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3266by Pablo Hernández, Miguel Angel de, Jiménez Cuenca, Juan Javier, Ramos Sainz, Miguel, Molina, Antonio, Vieira, Gonçalo, Hidalgo, Miguel Ángel, Fernández Menéndez, Susana, Recondo González, Carmen, Fernández Calleja, Javier, Peón, Juanjo, Corbea Pérez, A., Maior, C.N., Morales, M., Mora, Carla, Prieto Mateo, ManuelGet access
Published 2020
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3267Allometric relationships of ecologically important Antarctic and Arctic zooplankton and fish speciesby Schaafsma, Fokje L., David, Carmen L., Kohlbach, Doreen, Ehrlich, Julia, Castellani, Giulia, Lange, Benjamin A., Vortkamp, Martina, Meijboom, André, Fortuna-Wünsch, Anna, Immerz, Antonia, Cantzler, Hannelore, Klasmeier, Apasiri, Zakharova, Nadezhda, Schmidt, Katrin, Van de Putte, Anton, van Franeker, Jan A., Flores, HaukeGet access
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3268by Liliana Sánchez-González, Laura E Adams, Rafael Saavedra, Emma M Little, Nicole A Medina, Chelsea G Major, Marina Bruck, Julieanne Miranda, Coral Rosado-Santiago, Kyle Ryff, Marianyoly Ortiz, Grayson Brown, Roberto Barrera, Carmen L Pérez-Guerra, Vanessa Rivera-Amill, Gabriela Paz-BaileyGet access
Published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2021)
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3269by Miriam Bobadilla-del Valle, Pedro Torres-González, Miguel Enrique Cervera-Hernández, Areli Martínez-Gamboa, Brenda Crabtree-Ramirez, Bárbara Chávez-Mazari, Narciso Ortiz-Conchi, Luis Rodríguez-Cruz, Axel Cervantes-Sánchez, Tomasa Gudiño-Enríquez, Carmen Cinta-Severo, José Sifuentes-Osornio, Alfredo Ponce de LeónGet access
Published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2015)
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3270by Ana Hernández-González, Carlos Sánchez-Ovejero, Raúl Manzano-Román, María González Sánchez, José Manuel Delgado, Teresa Pardo-García, Francisco Soriano-Gálvez, Okan Akhan, Carmen M Cretu, Kamenna Vutova, Francesca Tamarozzi, Mara Mariconti, Enrico Brunetti, Ambra Vola, Massimo Fabiani, Adriano Casulli, Mar Siles-LucasGet access
Published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2018)
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3271by Laura Branquinho do Nascimento, Megmar Aparecida dos Santos Carneiro, Sheila Araújo Teles, Carmen Luci Rodrigues Lopes, Nádia Rúbia da Silva Reis, Ágabo Macedo da Costa e Silva, Ana Rita Coimbra Motta-Castro, Koko Otsuki, Ana Carolina Paulo Vicente, Regina Maria Bringel MartinsGet access
Published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2009)
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3272by Carlos Sánchez-Ovejero, Eylem Akdur, Raúl Manzano-Román, Ana Hernández-González, María González-Sánchez, David Becerro-Recio, Javier González-Miguel, Okan Akhan, Carmen M Cretu, Kamenna Vutova, Francesca Tamarozzi, Mara Mariconti, Enrico Brunetti, Ambra Vola, Massimo Fabiani, Adriano Casulli, Mar Siles-LucasGet access
Published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2020)
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3273by Nallely Lopez-Lopez, Ana Gabriela Ramos Martinez, Mariana Haydee Garcia-Hernandez, Rogelio Hernandez-Pando, Julio Enrique Castañeda-Delgado, Geanncarlo Lugo-Villarino, Céline Cougoule, Olivier Neyrolles, Bruno Rivas-Santiago, Monica Alejandra Valtierra-Alvarado, Marisela Rubio-Caceres, Jose Antonio Enciso-Moreno, Carmen Judith SerranoGet access
Published in Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (2018)
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3274by Schaafsma, Fokje L., David, Carmen L., Kohlbach, Doreen, Ehrlich, Julia, Castellani, Giulia, Lange, Benjamin A., Vortkamp, Martina, Meijboom, André, Fortuna-Wünsch, Anna, Immerz, Antonia, Cantzler, Hannelore, Klasmeier, Apasiri, Zakharova, Nadezhda, Schmidt, Katrin, Van de Putte, Anton P., van Franeker, Jan Andries, Flores, HaukeGet access
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3275by LeRoux, Frédérique, Wegner, K Mathias, Baker-Austin, Craig, Vezzulli, Luigi, Osorio, Carlos R, Amaro, Carmen, Ritchie, Jennifer M, Defoirdt, Tom, Destoumieux-Garzón, Delphine, Blokesch, Melanie, Mazel, Didier, Jacq, Annick, Cava, Felipe, Gram, Lone, Wendling, Carolin C, Strauch, Eckhard, Kirschner, Alexander, Huehn, StephanGet access
Published in Frontiers in Microbiology (2015)
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3276by Rodríguez-Rodríguez, C. (Cristina), Hernández-de-Rojas, A. (Alma), Castro-Pérez, M.C. (María del Carmen), Moreno-Ventas, X. (Xabier), Arroyo, N.L. (Nina Larissa), Alarcón López, F.J.(Francisco), Tapia-Paniagua, S.T. (Silvana Teresa), Martínez-Vázquez, J. M. (Juan Manuel), Santos, GuadalupeGet access
Published 2019
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3277by Durstenfeld, Matthew S, Peluso, Michael J, Peyser, Noah D, Lin, Feng, Knight, Sara J, Djibo, Audrey, Khatib, Rasha, Kitzman, Heather, O'Brien, Emily, Williams, Natasha, Isasi, Carmen, Kornak, John, Carton, Thomas W, Olgin, Jeffrey E, Pletcher, Mark J, Marcus, Gregory M, Beatty, Alexis LGet access
Published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases (2023)
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3278by Luna, Cristina, Esquer, Manuel, Barrientos-Díez, Jorge, Guerra, Alba, Seoane, Marina L., Colmenarejo, Iñaki, Kay, Steven, Cameron, Angus, Camañes, Carmen, Sard, Íñigo, Juárez, Danel, Orlandi, Alessandro, Angeletti, Federica, Papatoniou, Vassilios, Papantoniou, Ares, Makris, Spiros, Wedler, Armin, Rebele, Bernhard, Reynolds, Jennifer, Landgraf, MarkusGet access
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3279by Luna, Cristina, Esquer, Manuel, Barrientos-Díez, Jorge, Guerra, Alba, Seoane, Marina L., Colmenarejo, Iñaki, Kay, Steven, Cameron, Angus, Camañes, Carmen, Sard, Íñigo, Juárez, Danel, Orlandi, Alessandro, Angeletti, Federica, Papatoniou, Vassilios, Papantoniou, Ares, Makris, Spiros, Wedler, Armin, Rebele, Bernhard, Reynolds, Jennifer, Landgraf, MarkusGet access
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3280by Pérez-Hurtado, Alejandro, García García, Daniel, Hernández, Ángel, Pascual, Juan A., Garde, J.M., Escala, M.C., Silva Rubio, Eduardo da, Ventura, J., Hernández, Lucina, Delibes, M., Ezcurra, Exequiel, Keller, Claudia, Díaz-Paniagua, Carmen, Andreu, Ana C., Medina, Félix M., Nogales, ManuelGet access
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