About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 82. Chapters: Carmen, The Planets, Pictures at an Exhibition, Merry Mount, The Sleeping Beauty, A Love Supreme, Out of Doors, Antar, Histoire du soldat, Scheherazade, Genesis Suite, Orchestral Suite No. 2, Peer Gynt, Orchestral Suite No. 1, L'Arlesienne, Gayane, Symphonic Dances, Polovtsian Dances, Lyric Suite, Atom Heart Mother, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, Lincolnshire Posy, English Folk Song Suite, Orchestral Suite No. 4, The Crown of India, Suite bergamasque, Le tombeau de Couperin, The Tempest, Grand Canyon Suite, Children's Corner, Orchestral Suite No. 3, Cello Suites, Iberia, Armenian Dances, Karelia Suite, Lemminkainen Suite, The Spider's Feast, The Wand of Youth, Hary Janos, Suite for Cello and Piano, Billy the Kid, Pelleas et Melisande, Florida Suite, Goyescas, Nursery Suite, The Wasps, Suite for Piano, Gemeinhardt Suite, The Comedians, Masques et bergamasques, Brook Green Suite, Mel Torme's California Suite, Holberg Suite, Mississippi Suite, Ruralia Hungarica, Dolly, Farm Journal, Cantabile, Trail of Dreams: A Canadian Suite, Sigurd Jorsalfar, St Paul's Suite, Suite Gothique, King Christian II Suite, Canadiana Suite, Streets of Pekin, Riksdagsmusiken, Bacchus and Ariadne, Fairy Tale, Saudades do Brasil, Death Valley Suite, Capriol Suite, Masquerade Suite, Piano Suite. Excerpt: Carmen is a French opera comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Merimee, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies (1824) by Alexander Pushkin. Merimee had read the poem in Russian by 1840 and translated it into French in 1852. The opera premiered at the Opera-Comique of Paris on 3 March 1875, but its opening run was denounced by the majority of critics. It was almost withdrawn after its fourth or fifth performance, and ...
