Opera
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...toward operetta, the other toward a more serious, lyrical opera. Of that genre Ambroise Thomas , Charles Gounod , Georges Bizet , Leo Delibes , and Jules Massenet were the chief composers. Gounods Faust (1859) and Bizets Carmen (1875), two...