... her. As is well known the first production of Carmen was a failure. The reasons, of course, were many. There were political, moral, personnel and musical reasons that would cause the opera to fail at its premiere. Public reaction after the premiere on March 3, 1875 was cool; the critics" reviews were ... like that previously. Many of the themes in the opera were thought to have been profane; women smoking, drinking and dancing for men in taverns. Men waiting around for women to flirt and harass them, and the ultimate sight of seeing a woman stabbed to death on stage. It was not a typical...

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