the habanera and the toreador song are two famous arias from which opera
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Carmen Carmen (; ) is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalized 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"
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UK's ITV1 talent show "Popstar to Operastar", in which eight pop stars were trained to perform famous opera arias. He was mentored by tenor Rolando Villazón, with whom he went on to duet with on the song "The Impossible Dream". In May 2010 he appeared as toreador Escamillo in Bizet's opera "Carmen" at The O Arena in London. At age 29, he assumed the lead role of Carmen's lover. Also in 2010 he starred in "The History of the Big Bands" tour – a show about the Big Band and Swing Era, featuring the songs of Frank Sinatra and the
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Habanera, the first written music to be rhythmically based on an African rhythm pattern, gained international fame in the 19th century. The habanera "El Arreglito" composed by the Spanish musician Sebastian Yradier, was adapted to become one of the most famous arias in George Bizet's 1875 opera "Carmen", "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle". Bachata is a popular guitar music that originated in the Dominican Republic. Having strong African and Spanish influences, it is therefore also considered to be music of Latin America. The subjects of bachata are often romantic with tales of heartbreak and sadness. The original term used to
Music of the African diaspora
from act 1 and the "Toreador Song" from act 2 are among the best known of all operatic arias. The opera is written in the genre of "opéra comique" with musical numbers separated by dialogue. It is set in southern Spain and tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the wiles of the fiery gypsy Carmen. José abandons his childhood sweetheart and deserts from his military duties, yet loses Carmen's love to the glamorous matador Escamillo, after which José kills her in a jealous rage. The depictions of proletarian life, immorality,
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Aria Tesolin Aria Tesolin (born August 20, 1993 in Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian mezzo-soprano, pop classical, classical crossover and contemporary pop singer, songwriter and poet known for her operatic vocals and genre defying original style of classically infused pop music. As a child singer, Tesolin began singing opera arias in concert with Canada's 3 Tenors at the age of eight, singing the "Habanera" from Bizet's opera "Carmen", the brindisi "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from Verdis's opera "La traviata", "Belle nuit" from Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann", "Largo al factotum", the famous baritone aria from Rossini's "The Barber of Seville"
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Ah! Toreador, on guard! Toreador! Toreador! And think well , yes think as you are fighting that a dark eye is watching you, and that love is waiting for you, Toreador, love, love is waiting for you! Love! Love! Love! Toreador, Toreador, Toreador!</poem> Toreador Song The Toreador Song is the popular name for the aria "" ("Your toast, I can return it to you"), from the opera "Carmen", composed by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. It is sung by the bullfighter (French: "toréador") Escamillo as he enters in act 2 and describes various situations
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and other military units and organizations and is known as their “fight” song. The second verse of the Shamrocks song was suggested by Mickey Roneys and is a different tune of the Toreador song from Georges Bizet's famous opera Carmen. Again, the need to ‘Fight’ is highlighted and has become an intrinsic part of the Shamrock RUFC ethos. Woonona Shamrocks RUFC Woonona Shamrocks Rugby Union Football Club is an Australian rugby union club which competes in the Illawarra District Rugby Union competition. The home ground is located at Ocean Park Woonona and is the only rugby club in the northern
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Toreador Song The Toreador Song is the popular name for the aria "" ("Your toast, I can return it to you"), from the opera "Carmen", composed by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. It is sung by the bullfighter (French: "toréador") Escamillo as he enters in act 2 and describes various situations in the bullring, the cheering of the crowds and the fame that comes with victory. The refrain, "", forms the middle part of the of "Carmen". The bass-baritone couplet has a vocal range from B to F and a tessitura from C to
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salsa, and Latin jazz. The example below shows a tresillo-based tumbao from "Alza los pies Congo" by Septeto Habanero (1925). </score> Because of the popularity of the Cuban contradanza (habanera), the tresillo variant known as the "habanera rhythm" was adopted into European art music. For example, Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" (1874) has a famous aria, "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" based on a habanera pattern. The first seven measures are shown below. \header { \score { </score> In addition, Louis Moreau Gottschalk's first symphony, "La nuit des tropiques" (lit. "Night of the Tropics") (1860) was influenced by the composer's studies
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the 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket". Skinner tells Apu Nahasapeemapetilon of his plan to write a novel about an amusement park with dinosaurs called "Billy and the Cloneasaurus", which Apu rightfully condemns as a concept of plagiarism; the book is a reference to the Michael Crichton novel "Jurassic Park". When Martin is in a cage, he is singing the Toreador Song from the opera "Carmen". In describing the relationship of Bart and Skinner, Lisa Simpson compares them to Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty, the famous characters from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle detective stories; she also compares them to Mountain
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the singer playing Carmen walks onto the stage. She is just about to begin singing "Habanera", when she suddenly screams because she sees Jerry dressed like a toreador and dancing at the front of the stage. But Tom took the stage and caught Jerry, but the conductor thinking that Tom had ruined the opera suspiciously. This is the final straw for the conductor and he goes on the stage and blocks Tom's way, indicating that he has had enough of Tom's shenanigans and wants to harm him. Jerry gave a terrified Tom a red blanket, and the conductor goes wild
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Potter and Harvey Yates (the necklace thief) make formal speeches. Harpo repeatedly walks off, with a grimace on his face, to the punch bowl. (His staggering implies that the fruit punch has been spiked with alcohol.) Another highlight is when the cast, already dressed in traditional Spanish garb for a theme party, erupts into an operatic treatment about a lost shirt to music from "Carmen" (specifically, Habanera and the song of the Toreador). An earlier scene shows Harpo and Chico abusing a cash register while whistling the Anvil Chorus from "Il trovatore", a piece also referenced in several other Marx
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Harvey that they elope at midnight at Cocoanut Manor, and Harvey agrees. But since Polly doesn't know where it is, she gets Harvey to draw a map of how to get there. She thanks him, takes the map, and leaves. As more guests enter for dinner, Hennessey laments his lost shirt ("The Tale of a Shirt"; the melody combines the Habanera and Toreador song from "Carmen"). As master of ceremonies, Schlemmer makes a speech concerning the engagement of Harvey to Polly. He then introduces Mrs. Potter, who makes a few short remarks interrupted by constant interjections by Schlemmer, Willie and
The Cocoanuts (musical)
are more than one thousand versions of "La Paloma", and said that, together with "Yesterday" by The Beatles, it is one of the most recorded songs in the history of music. Another of Iradier's compositions is "El Arreglito", a habanera used by Georges Bizet in his opera "Carmen". Bizet, thinking it was a folk song, was inspired by the melody, and recomposed it as the aria "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle", also known as the "Habanera". When he discovered his mistake, Bizet added a note to the vocal score of the opera, acknowledging its source. Iradier died in obscurity in
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opera attended by the family is "Carmen", by French composer Georges Bizet; the song that Bart mocks is a famous aria called the Toreador Song. Students at the gifted school have lunchboxes that feature images of the 1945 novel "Brideshead Revisited" and chess grandmaster Anatoly Karpov. In its original American broadcast, "Bart the Genius" finished 47th place in the weekly ratings for the week of January 8–14, 1990 with a Nielsen rating of 12.7. It was the second highest rated show on the Fox network that week. Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. Warren
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bars of (six eighth-notes in two groups of three) with (three quarter-notes) (similar to a guajira) is a distinctive characteristic of the song. This rhythm has been called both a hemiola and a habanera but is not really either. The two bar-types alternate and are not superposed, as in a hemiola. The alternation is comparable with the “Habanera” from “Carmen”, but “America” lacks the distinctive characteristic underlying rhythm of the habanera form. The composer’s tempo instruction is “Tempo di Huapango”. An instrumental version, with the signature rhythm reduced to a uniform , was released in 1963 by Herb Alpert's Tijuana
America (West Side Story song)
City were conducted to determine whether it was practical to broadcast opera performances live from the stage. "Tosca" was performed on January 12, 1910, and the next day's test included Italian tenor Enrico Caruso. On February 24, the Manhattan Opera Company's Mme. Mariette Mazarin sang "La Habanera" from "Carmen" over a transmitter located in De Forest's lab. But these tests showed that the idea was not yet technically feasible, and de Forest would not make any additional entertainment broadcasts until late 1916, when more capable vacuum-tube equipment became available. De Forest's most famous invention was the "grid Audion", which was
Lee de Forest
Jacques Bouhy Jacques-Joseph-André Bouhy (18 June 1848 – 24 January 1929) was a Belgian baritone, most famous for being the first to sing the "Toreador Song" in the role of Escamillo in the opera "Carmen". Bouhy was born in Pepinster. After studying at the Liège Conservatory of Music, he made his début at the Paris Opéra as Méphistophélès ("Faust") in 1871. He performed at the Opéra-Comique as Figaro ("Le Nozze di Figaro"), Escamillo ("Carmen") in 1875. At the Comique he also created the role of "Don César de Bazan" in 1872. In 1882 he appeared at Covent Garden singing in
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his education at the Lviv Conservatory. During his education, Slipak participated in a vocal contest in the French city of Clermont, winning the contest. In 1996, Slipak received an invitation to perform at Opéra Bastille in Paris. In 1997 Slipak graduated from the Lysenko Music Academy in Lviv and then was invited to the Paris Opera where he became an opera singer. By 2011, he was at the top of his field, winning the prize for best male performer at the Armel Opera Competition and Festival in Szeged, Hungary, for his rendering of the Toreador Song from the opera "Carmen".
Vasyl Slipak
"Lillas Pastia's Inn" Two months have passed. Carmen and her friends Frasquita and Mercédès are entertaining Zuniga and other officers ("Les tringles des sistres tintaient") in Pastia's inn. Carmen is delighted to learn of José's release from two months' detention. Outside, a chorus and procession announces the arrival of the toreador Escamillo ("Vivat, vivat le Toréro"). Invited inside, he introduces himself with the "Toreador Song" ("Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre") and sets his sights on Carmen, who brushes him aside. Lillas Pastia hustles the crowds and the soldiers away. When only Carmen, Frasquita and Mercédès remain, the smugglers
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soloist. (b.Yerevan 1958). Renowned Armenian bass soloist. (Russian: Б.Р. Туманян) (People's Artist of Armenia, soloist of Yerevan Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, the winner of the Tchaikovsky contest). With the Alexandrov Ensemble in ca.1960 he sang "Granada" and the "Toreador Song" from Bizet's "Carmen", and received a seemingly endless ovation In 2008 he celebrated his 50th anniversary as a bass soloist with the Opera . In 2007 Tumanyan was interviewed by M. Zatikyan . His biography is here. See image here. (b.Moscow 1916; d.1990). (Russian: Алексей Усманов), tenor soloist. He began singing in the amateur choir of the Automobile Club
Alexandrov Ensemble soloists
contribute to the unique atmosphere of the opera, form only a small ingredient of the complete music. The prelude to act 1 combines three recurrent themes: the entry of the bullfighters from act 4, the refrain from the Toreador Song from act 2, and the motif that, in two slightly differing forms, represents both Carmen herself and the fate that she personifies. This motif, played on clarinet, bassoon, cornet and cellos over tremolo strings, concludes the prelude with an abrupt crescendo. When the curtain rises a light and sunny atmosphere is soon established, and pervades the opening scenes. The mock
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of Angels", and "From Chaos to Eternity", as well as on the EP "The Cold Embrace of Fear – A Dark Romantic Symphony", portraying the Wizard King. He also worked with Manowar while they were recording a new version of their first album, "Battle Hymns". The original voice was done by Orson Welles (who was long dead at the time of the re-recording). The new album, "Battle Hymns MMXI", was released on 26 November 2010. In 2006, he bridged two disparate genres of music by performing a heavy metal variation of the Toreador Song from the opera "Carmen" with the
Christopher Lee
leader) who did vocals on the track "Smor grad" ("Boredom Town"). The song "Naš brat" ("Our Brother") was written by Zoran Kostić "Cane" from Partibrejkers, the song "Jedite govna" ("Eat Shit") featured the theme from Cock Sparrer track "Chip On Your Shoulder", and the track "Dobro nam doš'o, direktore naš" ("A Welcome To You Executive of Ours") featured the George Bizet's "Habanera" from the opera "Carmen" and the lines from the TV show "Servisna stanica" ("Service Station") by Radivoje Lukić "Lola". In 2006, after a long hiatus, the band released their fourth album "UA direktori" ("BOO The Executives"). In the
Direktori
Habanera (aria) Habanera (music or dance of Havana, ) is the popular name for "" ("Love is a rebellious bird"), an aria from Georges Bizet's 1875 opera "Carmen". It is the entrance aria of the title character, a mezzo-soprano role, in scene 5 of the first act. It is based on a descending chromatic scale followed by variants of the same phrase in first the minor and then the major key, corresponding to the vicissitudes of love expressed in the lyrics. Despite the change in mode there is no actual modulation in the aria, and the implied pedal point D
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He announces his new TV Series called "Napoleon in New York" for which he wrote and stars as Napoleon. On September 26 and 27, he performed two open air concerts on Times Square for Best of France with the presence of French President François Hollande. He was also the Master of Ceremony of this event with the Moulin Rouge. On October, he released his new album Sephardi featuring Sephardi songs in Ladino language which he arranged and produced and a 100% vocal version of Habanera from Carmen opera in duet with beatboxer Mythe Boxe. On November, he released "All My
David Serero (opera singer)
Katsuhiro Ōtomo's "Construction Cancellation Order," a cautionary tale about man's dependency on technology. In addition to original music by Godiego's Mickie Yoshino, two prominently feature famous pieces of Western classical music: the first of Erik Satie's "Gymnopédies" and the "Toreador Song" of Georges Bizet's "Carmen" in "Labyrinth" and "Morning Mood" from Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt" score, in an ironic manner, in "The Order." The film premiered on September 25, 1987, at that year's Tōkyō International Fantastic Film Festival. Other than festival screenings, distributor the Tōhō Company originally relegated the film direct-to-video, releasing a VHS on October 10, 1987, but did
Neo Tokyo (film)
Opéra comique Opéra comique (; plural: "opéras comiques") is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular "opéra comiques en vaudevilles" of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a lesser extent the Comédie-Italienne), which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections. Associated with the Paris theatre of the same name, "opéra comique" is not always comic or light in nature; "Carmen", perhaps the most famous "opéra comique", is a tragedy. The term "opéra comique" is complex in meaning and cannot simply be translated as "comic opera". The
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care for his late master's works after he passed. Leonardo wanted his works to be shared with the world and read by others after his death, however Francesco never fully accomplished this. The works would eventually be compiled, and published as the Codex Urbinas. In addition to this, Melzi actually executed and completed a number of plans for paintings, and paintings themselves, that were left unfinished after Leonardo's passing. Francesco Melzi is known for creating the Codex Urbinas, which is a selection and careful compilation of Leonardo's thousands of pages of notes and sketches under the title "On Painting", and
Francesco Melzi
one of the worst coaching decision in the history of Indiana football, Head Coach Cam Cameron decided to move Randle-El to wide receiver, and let Jones become the starting quarterback. He opened the season as the starting quarterback against NC State, completing 18 of 31 passes for 163 yards and one touchdown. He also saw action on the kickoff return team. He did not play after week four of the season as he was sidelined with tendonitis in his throwing shoulder. For his senior season in 2002, under new head coach Gerry DiNardo, he completed 75 of 152 passes for
Tommy Jones (quarterback)
the Scottish Album of the Year Award, SAY Awards 2016. To record his 2012 album "To the Horizon, Sir", Morrison traveled to Vermont and the home studio of producer & friend Michael Chorney (Hadestown Orchestra, Anais Mitchell, Dollar General, Justin Vernon, Ani Difranco). He appeared on 3 programmes of the BBC’s TV series "Transatlantic Sessions" in 2011, singing 3 of his own songs alongside Bela Fleck, Danny Thompson and Jerry Douglas. He sang the part of Orpheus for Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown show in Glasgow in 2011. He was commissioned in 2010 by the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow to write
Iain Morrison (musician)
Controlled mines A Controlled Mine was a circuit fired weapon used in coastal defenses with ancestry going back to 1805 when Robert Fulton termed his underwater explosive device a torpedo: Robert Fulton invented the word torpedo to describe his underwater explosive device and successfully destroyed a ship in 1805. In the 1840s Samuel Colt began experimenting with underwater mines fired by electric current and in 1842, he blew up an old schooner in the Potomac River from a shore station five miles away. "Torpedoes" were in use during the American Civil War when such devices were made famous with the
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Trail Lakes The Trail Lakes are two lakes on the lower Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. The lakes are near the town of Moose Pass and adjacent to the Seward Highway. They are the home of a large salmon hatchery owned by the state of Alaska and operated by the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association. The fish hatched at this facility are released into streams and lakes at various points on the peninsula, and are also the source of the salmon runs at the "fishing hole" on the Homer Spit. The hatchery was at the center of a prolonged legal battle between the
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of musical science”. The full score of the opera has been lost and is preserved only in a few remaining fragments: sinfonia (that regarded as the first Symphony of a Russian/Ukrainian composer), which probably served as an introduction to the opera, and four arias: It is known via Sergei Prokofiev that Sergei Diaghilev had an intention to re-stage the opera; however, this plan had not been realized. The arias were published in Kiev in 1988. The recording of the Sinfonia and two Timante’s Arias now are available on a CD (Maxim Berezovsky: Secular Music, SACD CM 0022003, 54:48) A playbill
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Sauvagère, her estate at Millery, near Lyon. Ninon Vallin left a considerable output of 78-rpm recordings, dating from 1913 until the early 1950s, which can be heard on CD reissues. Many of them consist of operatic arias but there are also notable discs of French "mélodies" by Fauré, Chausson and Hahn. Among the complete or semi-complete opera recordings in which she featured were: Ninon Vallin Eugénie "Ninon" Vallin (September 1886 22 November 1961) was a French soprano who achieved considerable popularity in opera, operetta and classical song recitals during an international career that lasted for more than four decades. Eugénie
Ninon Vallin
1842 on, it gave way to the habanera, a quite different style. This genere, the offspring of the contradanza, was also danced in lines or squares. It was also a brisk form of music and dance in double or triple time. A repeated 8-bar paseo was followed by two 16-bar sections called the primera and segunda. One famous composer of danzas was Ignacio Cervantes, whose forty-one danzas cubanas were a landmark in musical nationalism. This type of dance was eventually replaced by the danzón, which was, like the habanera, much slower and more sedate. The habanera developed out of the
Music of Cuba
where Bob contemplates hitting the road. In addition to the original radio broadcast, the opera has been recorded twice on record: an LP from 1970 starring Judith Blegen and a more recent recording on CD from Dallas, Texas in February 2007. The arias are excerpted and available in the Soprano volume of G. Schirmer's American Arias and the Baritone Volume of G. Schirmer's American Arias. "The Old Maid and the Thief" was premiered on NBC Radio on April 22, 1939 with Alberto Erede conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra for the closing of the orchestra's 1938-1939 season. The opera was first
The Old Maid and the Thief
Catalogue aria A catalogue aria is a genre of opera aria in which the singer recounts a list of information (people, places, food, dance steps, etc.) that was popular in Italian comic opera in the latter half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. "Madamina, il catalogo è questo" from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Don Giovanni" is the most famous example, and is often referred to as "the catalogue aria". Leporello notes how many lovers the title character has had in each country he has visited. Pasquale sings two such arias in Joseph Haydn's "Orlando paladino", "Ho viaggiato in Francia, in
Catalogue aria
Carmen
Title: Carmen. Content: Carmen Carmen (; ) is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalized 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"
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