The Toreador Song from Carmen by Georges Bizet

Noise removed, bass boosted and normalized, with Audacity by sookietex. Toreador Song VBR MP3 2.27 mb, Toreador Song OGG format 1.22 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) French composer and pianist of the Romantic era, best known for the opera Carmen.

The Toreador Song by the Damrosch (New York Symphony) Orchestra. Orchestral arrangement of the Toreador Song from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, played by the Damrosch Orchestra in 1903.



Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845. Adapted from the narrative poem The Gypsies (1824) by Alexander Pushkin. Mérimée had read the poem in Russian by 1840 and translated it into French in 1852.

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Artist/Composer: New York Symphony Orchestra
Keywords: Toreador Song; Carmen; Opera; Georges Bizet
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Overture to Luisa Miller Giuseppe Verdi

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Overture to Luisa Miller Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi October 9 or 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901, trans. William G. Pruyn

Luisa Miller is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich von Schiller. First performanced at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples on December 8, 1849. It belongs to Verdi's early period.

Giuseppe Verdi

Composition Licence: This MP3 (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1924 are now in the public domain.

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Performed by The U.S. Marine Corps Band, Generally speaking, works created by U.S. Government employees are not eligible for copyright protection in the United States. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office.

Artist/Composer: U.S. Marine Corps Band
Keywords: Overture; Luisa Miller; Giuseppe Verdi; opera
Creative Commons license: Public Domain