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Оглавление(1838–75)
La Maison du Docteur (1855)
Le Docteur Miracle (1857)
Don Procopio (1859)
Ivan IV (1863)
Les Pêcheurs de Perles (1863)
La Jolie Fille de Perth (1867)
Djamileh (1872)
Carmen (1875)
Bizet’s short life – he died at thirty-six – was beset by disasters, disappointments, self-destroyed scores and abandoned projects, and although he wrote one of the most celebrated operas in the history of the medium, he never lived to see the measure of Carmen’s success. His interest in opera began early, while he was still studying in Paris with Halévy and (privately but influentially) Gounod, and his first stage works were more Italianate than French, modelled after Donizetti and Rossini. Later scores attracted the criticism that they were ‘Wagnerian’, although it’s hard to see why. Apart from Carmen, only one other opera, Les Pêcheurs de Perles, has survived in repertory, along with a mere handful of concert scores, including the youthful Symphony in C (which must be one of the most effective things ever written by a teenager), the suite of incidental music to the play L’Arlésienne, and the piano pieces Jeux d’Enfants.
