Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet

Born: 26 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne, Paris, France, 25 October 1838
(baptized Georges 16 March 1840)

Died: Bougival, France, 3 June 1875

Operas

The dates and locations are those of the premieres; when there was a substantial delay between composition and performance, the year of completion is also given. Revisions are listed separately.

La maison du docteur (?; NP), opéra-comique, 1 act, Henry Boitteaux [no orchestral score]
Le Docteur Miracle (9.4.1857 Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris), operetta, 1 act, Léon Battu & Ludovic Halévy
Don Procopio (1859; 13.3.1906 Monte Carlo [rev. version by Charles Malherbe] / 6.2.1958 Strasbourg [original version]), opéra-bouffe, 2 acts, Carlo Cambiaggio
L'amour peintre (1860), opéra-comique, G.B., after Molière [unfinished; lost]
La prêtresse (?), operetta, 1 act, Philippe Gille [sketches]
La guzla de l'Émir (1862), opéra-comique, 1 act, Jules Barbier & Michel Carré [lost]
Ivan IV (1865; 1946 Tübingen [private] / 12.10.1951 Bordeaux), opera, 5 acts, François Hippolyte Leroy & Henri Trianon [act 5 unfinished]
Les pêcheurs de perles (30.9.1863 Théâtre-Lyrique, Paris), opera, 3 acts, Michel Carré & E. Cormon
La jolie fille de Perth (26.12.1867 Théâtre-Lyrique, Paris), opera, 4 acts, J. H. Vernoy de Saint-Georges & Jules Adenis
Malbrough s'en va-t-en-guerre (13.12.1867 Athénée, Paris), operetta, 4 acts, Paul Siraudin & William Busnach [act 1 by Bizet; lost]
La coupe du roi de Thulé (1869; 12.7.1955 BBC broadcast), opera, 3 acts, Louis Gallet & Édouard Blau [incomplete]
Les templiers (1868), opera, 5 acts, Léon Halévy & J. H. Vernoy de Saint-Georges [incomplete; lost or not begun]
Noé, ou le Deluge (1869; 5.4.1885 Karlsruhe), opera, 3 acts, J. H. Vernoy de Saint-Georges [completion of opera by Fromental Halévy]
Clarissa Harlowe (1871), opéra-comique, 3 acts, Philippe Gille & Adolphe Jaime jr. [sketches]
Grisélidis (1871), opéra-comique, 1 act, Victorien Sardou [sketches]
Djamileh (22.5.1872 Opéra-Comique, Paris), opéra-comique, 1 act, Louis Gallet
Sol-si-ré-pif-pan (16.11.1872 Château d'Eau, Paris), operetta, 1 act, William Busnach [lost]
Don Rodrigue (1873), opera, 5 acts, Louis Gallet & Édouard Blau [incomplete]
Carmen (3.3.1875 Opéra-Comique, Paris), opéra-comique, 4 acts, Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy

Incidental Music and Other Dramatic Works

David (1856) cantata, Gaston d'Albano [lost]
L'ange et Tobie (1857) cantata, Léon Halévy [incomplete]
Héloise de Montfort (1857) cantata, Emile Deschamps [incomplete]
Le chevalier enchanté (1857) cantata, marquis de Pastoret [incomplete]
Herminie (1857) cantata, Vinaty [incomplete]
Le retour de Virginie (1857) cantata, Rollet
Clovis et Clotilde (1857.10.3) cantata, Amédée Burion
Les noces de Prométhée (1856) cantata, Romain Cornut jr. [lost]
L'Arlésienne (1.10.1872) incidental music, Alphonse Daudet

References:

Cardoze, Michel: Georges Bizet. Musique Mazarine. 1982
Curtiss, Mina: Bizet and his World. Alred A. Knopf, New York. 1958
Dean, Winton: Georges Bizet: His Life and Work. J. M. Dent & Sons, London. 1965

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