Bizet finished his most famous and most popular piece of work, the opera 'Carmen', in 1874. The 'Habanera' from Act I and the 'Toreador Song' from Act II of 'Carmen' are now two of the best known ...

Opera directors ... horse on which dashing toreador Escamillo makes his entrance seems at times bewildered—it works somehow to the advantage of Bizet’s rapturous music and the novella by ...