“Yesterday I heard—would you believe it?—Bizet's masterpiece, for the twentieth time. Again I stayed there with tender devotion, again I did not run away. This triumph over my impatience surprises me. How such a work makes one perfect! One becomes a "masterpiece" oneself.— And really, every time I heard Carmen I seemed to myself more of a philosopher, a better philosopher, than I generally consider myself: so patient do I become, so happy, so Indian, so settled ... To sit five hours: the first stage of holiness!— May I say that the tone of Bizet's orchestra is almost the only one I can still endure?” MasterpieceCarmenBizet Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry.” MenArtCoursesForceSexDarkViewsCasesDangerousIndustryNormalAncientFeministRevengeStuckClassicFormulasAggressiveUsualEstablishmentCounselingArchetypeForces Of NatureIrrationalityBatteredBlindersRefutationLove JealousyBattered WomenBizet Author:Camille Paglia
“The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.” BeautifulSongParisPeersComposingRossiniBizet Author:Cecilia Bartoli
“Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.” VoiceMusicAirClimateSensibilitySunnyClearnessBizet Author:Georges Bizet
“Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.” VoiceMusicAirClimateSensibilitySunnyClearnessBizet Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.” MenPlayFunnyYoungYoung ManOrchestraSymphonyBizet Author:Eugene Ormandy