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''Carmen Suite'' is a one-act ballet created in 1967 by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso to music by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin. The premiere took place on 20 April 1967 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. The music, taken from the opera ''Carmen'' by Georges Bizet and arranged for strings and percussion, is not a 19th-century pastiche but rather "a creative meeting of the minds," as Shchedrin put it, with Bizet's melodies reclothed in a variety of fresh instrumental colors (including the frequent use of percussion), set to new rhythms and often phrased with a great deal of sly wit. Initially banned by the Soviet hierarchy as "disrespectful" to the opera for precisely these qualities, the ballet has since become Shchedrin's best-known work and has remained popular in the West for what reviewer James Sanderson calls "an iconoclastic but highly entertaining retelling of Bizet's opera."〔Sanderson, allmusic.com.〕 ==Structure== The ballet is in one act containing 13 dance numbers: * I. Introduction: Andante assai * II. Dance: Allegro * III. First Intermezzo: Allegro moderato - Andante moderato - (atttacca) * IV. Changing of the Guard: Moderato * V. Carmen's Entrance and Habanera: Allegro moderato - Quasi andante * VI. Scene: Allegro moderato - Tempo precedente - Andante assai * VII. Second Intermezzo: Larghetto * VIII. Bolero: Allegro vivo * IX. Torero: Moderato con stoltezza * X. Torero and Carmen: Lento - Tempo I * XI. Adagio: Andante moderato - Adagio * XII. Fortune-Telling: Andantino - Andante assai * XIII. Finale: Allegro - Tempo precedente - Andante assai 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carmen Suite (ballet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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