The Habanera Songfacts reports that the habanera is a genre of Cuban popular dance music of the 19th century, which was brought back to Spain by sailors, where it became popular for a while and was danced by all classes of society. This aria was so called because it was written in the rhythm of the Cuban dance.
Carmen by Georges Bizet I saw a live professional opera performance of Carmen by Georges Bizet by the San Diego Opera at the San Diego Civic Theatre, May 14th 2011. The conductor was Edoardo Muller. The opera started at 7pm. The entire opera ran approximately 3 hours and 26 minutes and including two 20-minute intermissions.
When Carmen comes out, she sings her opening aria, “Habanera” in D minor. This aria is slow and graceful, in duple meter and is in verse and chorus form. Afterwards, it shows Carmen flirting with Don Jose (throws him a flower), and Micaela arrives with a letter from her mother, urging Don Jose to marry Micaela. Then, Zuniga orders Jose to.
Learn more about Habanera from the opera Carmen by Bizet in our Violin Online String Class - Romantic Music - Study Unit 4.16. Georges Bizet (1838-1875), a French composer and pianist, composed the opera Carmen in 1874. Explore the history, style and musical form of string music in our free, self-guided violin class which includes free violin sheet music and sound files.
His scores for Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960) have been the subject of extended studies by David Cooper (1) and Fred Steiner (2). Vertigo in particular has been analyzed at length by Cooper, Bruce, and others, and in the following essay I will not attempt to provide a complete overview of the score.