Georges Bizet

Carmen centers on a woman determined to choose her own life and on Don Jose's increasingly destructive jealousy. Bizet's score places memorable solo numbers within a tightly connected drama of work, public...

Bizet wrote the Symphony in C as a seventeen-year-old student at the Paris Conservatoire. It was neither published nor performed during his lifetime, and its modern concert history began in 1935. The four-movement...