The PGH Stage Online Magazine: Carmen, an opera in four acts, with music by the French composer Georges Bizet, is set to a libretto written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, who used a novella by Prosper Mérimée as their inspiration. It was not particularly well received when it was first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, in March 1875. Bizet made some revisions for the opera’s Vienna Court Opera premiere, scheduled for a few months later, but died suddenly at the age of 36, never knowing of his work’s great success there, or enduring fame as possibly the most popular and frequently performed of French operas.
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