Aged just 36 when he finally got Carmen onto the Parisian stage, Bizet would die soon afterwards and miss out on the success it went on to achieve. Nevertheless, the central position of gypsies, factory workers and other so-called 'common folk' persisted. As a result, he rewrote sections of his work in order to make the opera more acceptable to polite society. When Bizet was casting the title role in Carmen for the first production, many of the leading operatic performers of the day turned him down. Nevertheless, the opera has gone on to be considered a masterpiece, unrivalled by anything else written by the French composer. As such, the themes of working-class passions were already known to many in nineteenth-century society who considered it inappropriate to be the subject of a public performance. The libretto for the opera, by Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac, was based on a novella of the same name written in 1845 by Prosper Mérimée. Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halvy after the novella by Prosper. However, it was not like that when the first production had its premiere at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875. Opra comique in three acts (four pictures). Carmen, a four-act opera by Georges Bizet, is one of the most-loved theatrical stagings around the world. Georges Bizet (1838-1875) Librettists Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote the story of the opera based on the novel Carmen by Prosper Mérimée.
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