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  • Carmen
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    Carmen

    Opera by Georges Bizet State Opera Vienna - Wien
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    Opernring 1
    1010 Wien
     

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    The freedom-loving Carmen is desired by all men. Although none of their relationships last, the soldier Don José falls madly in love with her after she coquettishly throws a flower at his feet.

    He deserts, renounces a budding relationship with Micaëla, a girl from his village, and joins Carmen's band of smugglers. This time too, Carmen's feelings grow cold and she is only interested in the bullfighter Escamillo. An argument between Don José and Carmen escalates in front of the arena: Filled with jealousy, Don José kills his former lover.

    »This music seems perfect to me. It is light, flexible, polite. It is amiable, it doesn't sweat. Without a grimace! Without falseness! Without the lie of grand style! She is so unaffected and sincere that I have practically learned her by heart from the very beginning.« (Friedrich Nietzsche)
     
    The Viennese premiere of Carmen in today's Staatsoper (1875) was the first performance of the work outside France. Moreover, it was only with this Viennese premiere that this opera achieved its international breakthrough.
     
    (Source: wiener-staatsoper.at)