Photo: Jaromír Svoboda, National Theatre archive
Hello and welcome to RPI’s Sunday Music Show with me RF. On March 3, 1875, Georges Bizet’s Carmen had its world premiere at the Théâtre de l’Opéra-Comique in Paris. The opera triggered shock and disapproval for breaking away from the conventions of the time. Today, however, Carmen is considered one of the most significant and beloved works in the operatic repertoire worldwide.
Carmen was first performed in the Czech lands in 1880 in German at the Estates Theatre in Prague.
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