Bizet won early success as a composer and initially as a pianist. His later career in Paris was more variable, and a number of stage works remained unfinished at the time of his early death, which took place as his most famous opera, Carmen, was enjoying increasing favour. Victor Hugo's poem “Guitare“ was set to music also by Massenet, Lalo,Saint-Saenz and others. This lively piece really shows the virtuosity and coloratura that Philippe Jaroussky the Granada Concert. (This is espe
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