Thread: Carmen. The World's Most Loved Opera

Originally Posted by Mayerl

Opera!!!!!
Gotterdammerung is an opera
La Boheme is an opera
Don Giovanni is an opera
Carmen is a bloody musical!!!!

Really, mate?
Look it up.
Carmen is opéra comique, a sub-genre that can have dramatic/tragic topic (don't be fooled by the word comique, it's not necessarily comic) but also spoken dialogue.
You also should get informed about the definition of what constitutes a musical. Carmen has operatic singing, unlike musicals.
As for your comment being just an attempt to put down Carmen, the rest of the musical world disagrees with you (including, the composer of the first opera you've quoted).

It's practically the only thing that Brahms and Wagner both liked.

Something nobody can say abour Carmen:

- it is boring or it is long.

Neither of them would be true.

Carmen is for opera what the bolero (Ravel) is for symphonic music...

Both are "entraînant" and catchy.

Opinion of a "neophit": Martin Pitchon