Music Of The Great Composers --

Georges Bizet-Part 2 They approve of Humperdinck, whose Hansel and Gretel, fairy opera, hardly justifies the overburdened, Wagnerian instrumentation. Somebody said that he shot with cannons at sparrows. They would perhaps reproach Bizet with shooting at lions with children's pistols in his tragic opera Carmen. It is impossible to please everybody. Fortunately, there are very few musicians whose short sightedness prevents them from appreciating..