Come and discover Carmen in Swing , the masterpiece by George Bizet revisited by Pierre-Gérard VERNY:
Prosper MÉRIMÉE's short story has travelled around the world thanks to the masterful musical setting by Georges BIZET.
Pierre Gérard VERNY has revisited this masterpiece and adapted it for choir (SAB), narrator, saxophones and jazz trio: a very remarkable work that plunges us into Carmen's passionate and dramatic universe.
CD with songs, play-backs and files for voice by voice learning (sold separately).
Prelude :
Spain, 1820. Morning is drawing to an end in Seville, on the main square next to the tobacco factory where Carmen is employed.
It is there, on this very square, that about fifteen soldiers are gathered in front of a guardhouse, all of them dragoons of the Alcala regiment.
These men sit smoking while they watch the passers-by...