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Carmen Febres-Cordero De Ballén
Carmen Febres-Cordero de Ballén (1829–1893) was an Ecuadorian writer and poet.Calderón, Alba; Paz y Miño, Germania. "La pintura social como medio de acceso al campo artístico de tres mujeres en el Ecuador de la década de 1930" (in Spanish) p. 23. Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, 2017. Biography Carmen Febres-Cordero was born in Guayaquil in 1829. She was the daughter of lieutenant colonel Joaquín Francisco Febres Cordero and of Maria de Jesus Montoya. She had four brothers. In 1853, she married Aurelio Ballén de Guzmán. They had three children. There are few known poems by this author, but they are all said to be of merit. According to Manuel Gallegos, they were written in her adolescence. She improvised the verses with a well-measured metric, her talent being well-cultivated. Examples of her works include, "A mi esposo ausente" (To my absent husband), that Jose Bernardine Suárez considers most notable, "A una flor" (To a flower) and "A mi madre" (To my mother), al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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 Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalised its first audiences. Bizet died suddenly after the 33rd performance, unaware that the work would achieve international acclaim within the following ten years. ''Carmen'' has since become one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the classical Western canon, canon; the "Habanera (aria), Habanera" from act 1 and the "Toreador Song" from act 2 are among the best known of all operatic arias. The opera is written in the genre of ''opéra comique'' with musical numbers separated by dialogue. It is set in southern Spain and tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the wiles of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
