This coffee break dips back in Bizet's Carmen, this time listening to the opera version rather than the orchestral version, the "Habanera" from act 1 and the "Toreador Song" from act 2, among the best known of all operatic arias, including a fast, fun quintet and the tragic last scene. We also listen to selections from his incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play L'Arlésienne and a piece called Children's Games. Lots of wonderful music from a composer who had a tragically short life. We again apologize for the Bizet puns and promise we won't make any more.

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