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Many operas have been created from literary works. Voices, music, actors, costumes, and stage sets add new dimensions to the original works, as composers translate stories from the page to the opera stage. We'll hear about Bizet's _Carmen_, based on a short story by Prosper Merimee; Tchaikovsky's _Eugene Onegin_, based on a novel by Aleksandr Pushkin; and Verdi's _Falstaff_, based on William Shakespeare's _The Merry Wives of Windsor_ and _Henry IV, Part I_. Fifteen- and thirty-second promos available. If you are interested in this, see our piece at What's the Word? Hip-Hop in the World .
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