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A Crude, Unromantic WorldĬalixto Bieto’s conception of “Carmen” premiered at the Perelada Festival in 1999 with Alagna as Don José.

There was general annoyance from the audience when the Stage Director from the Paris Opera came on stage to make the announcement, but that was a distant memory when they came to applaud Borras at the close of the night. Lorenzo Viotti also made his debut with the company conducting the Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris.Īlagna wound up canceling the first two performance due to illness and was replaced by Jean-François Borras, who was scheduled to appear in a few later performances of this run. Bizet, unfortunately died a mere three months after the premiere, and it is suspected that the negative reception contributed to his fatal heart attack.The Paris Opera revived the Calixto Bieto’s production of “ Carmen” at La Bastille with a cast to die for: Anita Rachvelishvili and Roberto Alagna as the tormented couple of Carmen and Don Jose, and Nicole Carr and Roberto Tagliavini as Micaëla and Escamillo. Also, the role of Carmen is not a success for it is trivial and brutal, turning this feline girl into a cynical harlot.” The opera was on the verge of being withdrawn, and it has been suggested that the theater had to give away free tickets in order to boost attendance. If one takes that away, only educated noise is left. It is melody that is the design of music. Such a way of composing must inevitably produce works that are confused. For this school of composition, of which Wagner is the high priest, motif is old-fashioned, melody is superannuated the voice is overpowered by the orchestra, leaving only a feeble echo.

Bizet as is known,” wrote a critic, “belongs to that new sect that believes in vaporizing musical ideas instead of enclosing them within definite bounds.