This is a ballet based on the opera "Carmen" by George Bizet, choreographed by Roland Petit, and first produced by Roland Petit's Ballets de Paris in 1949. It is a striking admixture of clasical ballet, Spanish-style movement, mime, and newly invented dramatic dance action.
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Carmen
Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies (1824) by Alexander Pushkin. Mérimée had read the poem in...