Habanera

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Habanera

a Cuban dance and song derived from the European contredanse. The classic example of the habanera is S. Yradier’s “The Dove.” Popular throughout Latin America, the habanera was used by such composers as G. Bizet, in the opera Carmen, C. Debussy, in the piano composition La Soirée dans Granade, and M. Ravel, in music for voice and piano.

Habanera

Carmen’s “love is a wild bird” provokes hearers. [Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190]

See: Flirtatiousness

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Singing the Habanera, Vardanean was playful, but the brisk tempo prevented the characteristic lingering seductive phrases from being expressed fully.

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Among the popular pieces are the Habanera, with its sensual rhythms, and the stirring Toreador's Song.

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Yvonne Fontane (mezzo soprano) sang Habanera from Carmen, and after the interval Pierce and Hayes impressed with the Pearl Fishers duet, then Fontane gave a superb performance of Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix from Samson and Delila VERDICT: PAUL MARSTON