Opera †Carmen Essay

  This was an amazing Opera, I only wish that I had the opportunity to trip up it in person. I have never watched anything like it, and probably would not have had it not been part of this class. Let me say Thank you for origin my eyes to this amazing experience. The theatrical transaction, choreography and music were very sorrowful and to my surprise drew me in to continue watching and trying to interpret. I have to say I was very shocked at the sex activity used in this performance, it seemed as thought it was wrote long before its meter.Carmens sexuality was very much a large part of the performance and I found it intriguing. I decided to rent the movie Carmen to examine the performances and found them to be very similar in character hitherto the Opera was much more captivating. The music alone is wonderful further when added to the stage performance it was absolutely mesmerizing. Carmen is a direct conflict of the expectations for women of this cadence period. Women were to be gentle, biddable and sinned against.However Carmen used her beauty and sexuality to her advantage. She utterly combined her acting, singing, and dancing abilities to portray a seductive and enticing nature that even Don Jose could not resist. The musical transitions for each character and setting were for me the amateur at times overwhelming and difficult to take it completely in. As the music and people become loud during the bullfight in the background you can get wind Carmen and Don Jose characters in the music.In the ascendant of the Opera Don Jose appears to be very strong and powerful with an world power to ignore Carmen. Again the music helps portray this image. Obviously he changes passim the performance to become ravaged with lust and jealousy towards Carmen. You can hear in his voice his defeat and it leaves you to believe that although he will no longer be jealous he overly will regret Carmen forever. Although the orchestra was not shown often it app eared that it consisted primarily of men, which I found rather interesting.The sets were also incredible which made me wonder how the original sets were designed. This Opera appears to have been a monumental changes in the French Opera it is a shame that Bizet, out-of-pocket to his early death, was unable to realize his impact not only of his time but still today 100 years later.