Entr'acte
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Entr'acte means 'between the acts'. It can mean a pause between two parts of a stage production, synonymous to an intermission, but it more often indicates a piece of music performed between acts of a
Pendant l'entracte (During the entr'acte): lithography by Alexandre Lunois published in L'Artiste (1894).
Carmen
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Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera
Entr'acte
…acts without an intermission. In the case of stage musicals or operas, the entr'acte serves as the overture of act 2 (and sometimes acts 3 and 4, as in Carmen). In films that were meant to be shown with an intermission, there was frequently a specially recorded entr'acte on the soundtrack between the first…
Poster from the 1875 première
Célestine Galli-Marié as Carmen
Lithograph of act 1 in the premiere performance, by Pierre-Auguste Lamy, 1875
Magdalena Kožená and Jonas Kaufmann at the Salzburg Festival 2012