The full orchestral and vocal score of what is perhaps the world's favorite opera, in the grand opera version most commonly performed today, complete with the recitatives by Ernest Guiraud added after Bizet's death. Reprinted from the authoritative edition published by C. F. Peters, Leipzig. French text.
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The critics at the premiere loathed it. Audiences have always loved it. Members of the chorus don't like it any better than the original critics, but for very different reasons. Carmen is a long and difficult outing for the chorus, and critics have bashed it for its tabloid-trash elements, but audiences love the drama and the music. It's too bad that Georges Bizet died so soon after it premiered, because it would have been interesting to watch his musical development; he improved greatly from his first opera, La Jolie fille de Perth (The Fair Maid of Perth), to his second, Les Pecheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers), and again to Carmen. The arias, ensembles, and choruses here are almost all first-rate, with only occasional minor descents into the typically French and fluffy moments that so mar his earlier works; this full orchestral score from Dover shows Bizet's accomplishment in its entirety. The usual caveats apply: this is a reprint of an out-of-copyright score from another publisher, so it's not going to be up-to-date in terms of modern performance practice. As a full score, it won't be as handy for singers learning the music--a piano score is generally more useful for that purpose--but it's a tremendous bargain for those who want to get a handle on this very popular opera.
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Highly recommended..............,
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This review is from: Carmen in Full Score (Dover Vocal Scores) (Paperback)
Dover once again gives us an affordable cleanly produced score at a cheap price. Get it before it goes the route of FAUST and gets deleted from the catalogue.
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Highly recommanded by music teachers all over,
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This review is from: Carmen in Full Score (Dover Vocal Scores) (Paperback)
Those of you who like Carmen this is a must have book, as a singer and a music teacher I have this book for exams. The music and songs and perfect and you can follow the story from the notes. This is a must have book as i've already said.
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An Opera Comique--with Recits,
This review is from: Carmen in Full Score (Dover Vocal Scores) (Paperback)
For Carmen, Dover chose to reprint the Peters edition, a good, reliable edition, with a German translation, and the recits written for the Paris Opera premiere. Anyone who knows Carmen knows that Bizet originally intended it for the Opera Comique, and, therefore, it was intended to be performed with dialogue in between the set numbers. Personally, I feel that the score works better in this Opera Comique, number/dialogue style, than with these rather clunky recits. Some would disagree, saying that dialogue doesn't carry well in an Opera house. Well, if that's true, why do Mozart's great Singspiels still hold the stage, dialogue and all? Nonetheless, a good Carmen score should contain the recits in case one wants to use them. One can, after all, simply skip past them. However, the best score should also contain the dialogue. This one does not. Again, Dover chose to reprint the Peters edition. Peters was a publisher noted for his scholarship, so from that point of view, it's quite reliable. It's also large enough to conduct from. And, as usual, the book itself is nearly indestructable. This edition, for any of Carmen's lovers, is like a rose on the ground.
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