Carmen in Full Score(比才《卡门》全谱)

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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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.

1. Prelude
ACT 1
2. Scene and Chorus: Sur la place (Chorus, Micaela, Morales)
3. Chorus of Street Boys: Avec la garde montante
4. Chorus of Cigarette Girls: La cloche a sonne-Dans l'air nous suivons des yeux
5. Habanera: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Carmen, Chorus)
6. Scene: Carmen! sur tes pas (Chorus)
7. Duet: Parle-tool de ma mere-J'apporte de sa part--Votre m~re avec moi--Ma mere, je la vois (Don Jose, Micadla)
8. Chorus: Que se passe-t-il?--Au secours!
9. Song: Mon officier, c'etait une querelleiTra la la la la (Don Jose, Zuniiga, Carmen,Chorus)
10. Seguidilla and Duet: Pres des remparts de Seville (Carmen, Don Jose)
11. Finale: Voici l'ordre: partez
Entr'acte
ACT 2
12. Gypsy Song: Les tringles des sistres tintaient (Carmen, Frasquita, Mercedes)
13. Chorus: Vivat! vivat le Torero!
14. Toreador Song: Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre--Toreador, en garde! (Escamillo,Chorus)
15. Quintet: Nous avons en tete une affaire (Carmen, Frasquita, Mercedes, E1 DancaTro, El Remendado)
16. Song (Canzonetta): Halte-la! Qui va 1a? (Don Jose)
17. Duet.'Je vais danser en votre honneur--La fleur que tu m'avais jetee-La-bas, 1a-bas dans la montagne (Carmen, Don Jose)
18. Finale: Hola! Carmen! Hola!--Bel officier--Suis-nous a travers la campagne Entr'acte
ACT 3
19. Sextet and Chorus: Ecoute, eoute, compagnon-Notre metier
20. Trio: Melons! Coupons! (Carmen, Frasquita, Mercedes)
21. Ensemble: Quant au douanier, c'est notre affaire (Carmen, Frasquita, Mercedes, Chorus)
22. Air: C'est des contrebandiersiJe dis que rien ne m'epouvante (Micaela)
23. Duet: Je suis Escamillo (Escamillo, Don Jose)
24. Finale: Hola! Hola! Jose!
Entr'acte
ACT 4
25. Chorus: A deux cuartos!
26. March and Chorus: Les voici!--C'est l'Espada--Si tu m'aimes
27. Duet andfinal Chorus: C'est toi! C'est moi! (Carmen, Don Jose)