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Carmen
Bizet
1875
A tale of passion and jealousy in Seville.
The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875,
Diana Vishneva
The breaking of conventions shocked and scandalised its first audiences. Bizet died suddenly after the 33rd performance, unaware that the work would achieve international acclaim within the following ten years. Carmen has since become one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the classical canon; the "Habanera" and "Seguidilla" from act 1 and the "Toreador Song" from act 2 are among the best known of all operatic arias.
Don Giovanni
Mozart
1787
The story of the legendary seducer Don Juan. Don Giovanni is regarded as one of the greatest operas of all time,[2] and has proved a fruitful subject for commentary in its own right; critic Fiona Maddocks has described it as one of Mozart's "trio of masterpieces with librettos by Da Ponte".[3]
1787: Praque
Pavarotti
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