On March 3, 1875, "Carmen" premiered at the Paris Opera House, but the response was mediocre. Before the performance, the audience started from the appreciation habit of "elegant opera form expressing elegant characters and stories", and found it difficult to adapt to the "low-level" characters in the play. Because the heroine in the play is a female cigarette factory worker (a gypsy girl), the male protagonist is an ordinary soldier, and the other male protagonist is a bullfighter whose life is not guaranteed. They are all typical figures at the bottom of society. As the plot develops, certain "dirty" scenes continue to appear: scenes of a group of female workers smoking, scenes of these female workers quarreling and fighting, and cruel matadors fighting bulls... Therefore, the audience thinks this is... It's just so vulgar and unacceptable. Paris newspapers have always been enthusiastic about opera reviews, but this time the response was very cold. The failure of the premiere of "Carmen" gave Bizet a huge mental blow and he was in great pain. Three months later, on the evening of June 26, Bizet died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 37. After his death, "Carmen" grew in popularity and evolved into an important piece today, but it was a pity that he himself did not have the opportunity to witness his achievement.

Music history is not a simple accumulation of historical data, we must feel it from the soul. Bizet's era is enviable. The musical life they had is increasingly becoming a kind of luxurious knowledge, left to be interpreted by thousands of future generations.

Bizet's "Les Demoiselles" was originally a drama soundtrack, and the script was written by the famous French writer Daudet. It was originally a three-act play, describing the love tragedy of Frederic, a young farmer in Provence, France. The plot is roughly as follows: Frederic is about to marry a girl from Alet (this girl did not appear in the original play). Suddenly he learns that the girl has a bad reputation, so Frederic wants to forget the girl and marry his childhood girlfriend Wei. Yate gets married. On the wedding day, an uninvited guest brought the news that the girl from Ale City had eloped with her lover. Frederic, who was still deeply in love with the girl from Allais, could not control himself and committed suicide by jumping from the attic window.

Bizet composed 27 orchestral pieces for the play, 6 of which have mixed chorus. Les Demoiselles d'Alay failed at its premiere, but Bizet's score for the play did not receive bad reviews. Afterwards, Bizet selected 4 of them and arranged them into orchestral pieces for concert use. This was the "First Suite" that was later widely circulated. After Bizet's death, his friend Giraud, a professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory of Music, also selected several pieces of music and added a minuet from Bizet's opera "Beautiful Perse" to compile the "Second Suite" . The theatrical performance of "Les d'Ale" was not a success, but the two suites based on the music of the play became masterpieces.

Classical music fans are familiar with Bizet's classic opera "Carmen", but few know that Bizet's first opera "The Pearl Fishers" is no less beautiful in melody and music. "Carmen". "The Pearl Fishers" is an opera in three acts, composed between 1862 and 1863. It was first performed at the Opéra Comique in Paris on September 28, 1863. The story in the play takes place on the island of Ceylon in ancient times. It is a touching love triangle story. The story describes that Zurga, the new leader of the island, and Nadir, the fisherman, both love the beautiful girl Laila, but the eminent monk Nourabad warned her, hoping that she would be pure and love herself, cut off lust, and forced her to make a promise. oath. Later, Laila came to the island disguised as a nun. Later, Nadir discovered that the nun was Laila, and the fire of love was rekindled. Laila had always been in love with Nadir, but she finally couldn't restrain her emotions and fell into Nadir's arms. The eminent monk Nourabad who was spying on them captured them and sentenced them to death according to their oath. During the execution, Zurga lit a fire to attract everyone's attention and saved Nadir and Laila. In order to stop the crowd from letting them escape, Zurga himself was killed by the tribesmen with knives. Although the plot of the play is simple, Bizet's music creates a colorful background. Starting from "The Pearl Fishers", Bizet's music gradually matured, which foreshadowed the birth of his next great work "Carmen".