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  1. classic carman songs from the 80s early 90s.

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  2. The best songs of all time. Hours of non-stop classic tracks from some of the greatest hitmakers the world has ever seen.

    • First and Foremost – The Music Is Nothing Short of Awesome
    • The Story of Carmen
    • Carmen Herself
    • Micaëla
    • Bizet Knew He Was on to A Good Thing

    Bizet wrote a fair few great works – the Te Deum for a start – but in Carmenhe really went up a gear in terms of writing entrancing melodies. Just listen to this – the Toreador’s song performed by the bullfighter Escamillo in Act II of the opera – and try and resist humming along

    Opera doesn’t come much more dramatic than Carmen [SPOLERS]: The opera opens as Carmen and her fellow cigarette-factory workers stream out at the end of a day. Local young men surround then and start to flirt – but Carmen explains her heart can’t be tied down with the unforgettable habanera, which begins with the words ‘Love is a rebellious bird th...

    Carmen, as created by Bizet, has become the stereotypical Spanish woman of the 19th century in the popular imagination. She’s hedonistic, impetuous, hot-tempered and cold-hearted. She’s lovestruck and a femme fatale at the same time. It’s ironic, then, that this quintessential Spanish woman… was created by a Frenchman. Not only that, Bizet’s opera ...

    There’s one character we haven’t mentioned yet: Micaëla. She’s a sweet village girl who’s in love with Don José herself. She’s quieter and altogether less Carmen than Carmen. So Don José, of course, barely notices her. Even when she tries to get his life back on track by going to fetch him home from the smugglers’ camp he’s living in with Carmen. B...

    The composer himself had a sense that he’d written something greater than all his other works. He wrote in a letter to a friend that he had “absolute certainty of having found my path”. That makes it even sadder, therefore, that the opera wasn’t a success when it was first performed in 1875. One critic noted that the audience in Paris was “shocked ...

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  4. There are many good recordings of Carmen, one of the most popular operas of all, but here we recommend three of the best. The 1950s Choice de los Angeles; Gedda; Micheau; Les Petits Chanteurs de Versailles; French National Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham (Warner Classics)

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  6. The best songs of all time. Hours of non-stop classic tracks from some of the greatest hitmakers the world has ever seen.