“Carmen refuses to return to José and is stabbed by him”: This is how the text of a “Liebigbild” from 1895 described the depiction of the final scene of Georges Bizet’s “Carmen”. The fact that even the meat extract manufacturer Liebig advertised its product with this motif on collector’s cards – similar to the later Panini collector’s pictures – proves the enormous popularity of the opera twenty years after its premiere.
Opera “Carmen”: Reconstruction of the original production in Rouen – Culture
