Bizet – Carmen Entr’acte
Bizet - Carmen Entr'acte
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Entr’acte (or entracte German: Zwischenspiel and Zwischenakt, Italian: intermezzo, Spanish: intermedio) means “between the acts”. It can mean a pause between two parts of a stage production, synonymous to an intermission (this is nowadays the more common meaning in French), but it more often (in English) indicates a piece of music performed between acts of a theatrical production.In the case of stage musicals, the entr’acte serves as the overture of act 2 (and sometimes acts 3 and 4, as in Carmen). In films that were meant to be shown with an intermission, there was frequently a specially recorded entr’acte on the soundtrack between the first and second half of the film, although this practice has died out in recent years.
Work
- Bizet – Carmen Entr’acte
Composed
- 1875
First Performance:
- First performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875
Movements
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Act 4
Audio excerpt from
- Label: Naxos Regular CD
- Artists: Alsop, Marin; Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Video lesson by
- Walter Auer