This is Opera
Season 1, Episode 1: Carmen
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In the first episode, Ramón Gener talks of the cultural setting of "Carmen" by Georges Bizet-the most frequently staged and the most popular French opera of all time. In relation to the opera, filming takes place in locations such as Seville and Paris where the viewer is "transported" back to 1875 at Paris's National Theatre for Comic Opera, and the scandal it caused at the time.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Carmen
Episode 2
Turandot
Episode 3
The Barber of Seville
Episode 4
La Bohème
Episode 5
Parsifal
Episode 6
Pelléas et Mélisande
Episode 7
Bel Canto
Episode 8
The Ring of Nibelung
Episode 9
Tosca
Episode 10
La Traviata
Episode 11
Tristan and Isolde
Episode 12
Don Giovanni
Episode 13
Rigoletto
Episode 14
Manon
Episode 15
The Freeshooter