Ballet in five scenes Music: GEORGES BIZET- RODION SCEDRIN The ballet script: EMIL STRUGARU, after the novel of the same name by PROSPER MÉRIMÉE The impetus and reason for the creation of the ballet "Carmen" was the burning desire of Rodion Scedrin's wife, the famous ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, to reproduce the strong, impetuous character of the passionate protagonist through dance. Since contemporaries considered that Scedrin's version "insults Bizet's masterpiece", from ...