Returning to Paris after almost three years in Italy, he found that the main Parisian opera theatres preferred the established classical repertoire to the works of newcomers. He was recognised as an outstanding pianist, though he chose not to capitalise on this skill and rarely performed in public. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.ĭuring a brilliant student career at the Conservatoire de Paris, Bizet won many prizes, including the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857.
Georges Bizet ( né Alexandre César Léopold Bizet 25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era. The Negative Effects of Social MediaĪnd to make a long story short, he is lashing out against the idea of individuals becoming slaves to social media. Moreover it can be said that he views socializing over the internet as a way whereby individuals can become rather more alienated from their fellow man. And to drive this point home, he focuses largely on the concept of falling in love over social media.Īnd as implied in Habanera itself, the end result is that the individual involved realizes shortly thereafter that the feelings are not genuine. So ultimately, Stromae is using the illustration of the temporalness and shall we say vanity of internet associations to point to the more general idea of social media negatively affecting our relationships.Bizet photographed by Étienne Carjat (1875)
Moreover it should be noted that the proper name of Habanera is actually “ L’amour Est un Oiseau Rebelle“. In English, that phrase translates to “ Love Is a Rebellious Bird“. And the reason this is important is because the bird also plays an important metaphorical role in Stromae’s song. As in the original Carmen, ultimately it points to the idea of romance being something which a person cannot tie down. But more symbolically Stromae also relates it to a very 21 st century phenomenon, that being the omnipresence of the ubiquitous Twitter bird.
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