question: What composer achieved few successes before his final work, "Carmen", Georges Bizet or Domenico Cimarosa?
answer: Georges Bizet
context: Title: Le donne rivali
  Passage: Le donne rivali is an intermezzo in two acts by composer Domenico Cimarosa with an Italian libretto by a now unknown poet.  It is speculated that Giuseppe Petrosellini may have been the author of the libretto.  The opera premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome during Carnival in 1780.  The original choreography was created by Alberto Cavos, the original costumes by Antonio Dian, and the original scenery by Domenico Fossati.  Music critics particularly admire the final quintet that closes the opera.  In recent years, "Le donne rivali" has been occasionally revived and recorded.  In 1991, the Juilliard Opera Center intertwined the work with Mozart's unfinished opera "Lo sposo deluso", which shares the same libretto, to make one large work.
  Title: Carmen (Barney Kessel album)
  Passage: Carmen (full title Modern Jazz Performances from Bizet's Carmen and also referred to as Kessel Plays Carmen) is an album by guitarist Barney Kessel performing adaptations of pieces from Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" recorded in late 1958 and released on the Contemporary label.
  Title: Carmen Suite (ballet)
  Passage: Carmen Suite is a one-act ballet created in 1967 by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso to music by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin for his wife, prima ballerina assoluta Maya Plisetskaya.  The premiere took place on 20 April 1967 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.  The music, taken from the opera "Carmen" by Georges Bizet and arranged for strings and percussion, is not a 19th-century pastiche but rather "a creative meeting of the minds," as Shchedrin put it, with Bizet's melodies reclothed in a variety of fresh instrumental colors (including the frequent use of percussion), set to new rhythms and often phrased with a great deal of sly wit.  Initially banned by the Soviet hierarchy as "disrespectful" to the opera for precisely these qualities, the ballet has since become Shchedrin's best-known work and has remained popular in the West for what reviewer James Sanderson calls "an iconoclastic but highly entertaining retelling of Bizet's opera."
  Title: Carmen Jones
  Passage: Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre.  Conceptually, it is Bizet's opera "Carmen" updated to a World War II-era African-American setting.  (Bizet's opera was, in turn, based on the 1846 novella by Prosper Mérimée.)  The Broadway musical was produced by Billy Rose, using an all-black cast, and directed by Hassard Short.  Robert Shaw prepared the choral portions of the show.
  Title: Carmen Suites (Bizet/Guiraud)
  Passage: The Carmen Suites are two suites of orchestral music drawn from the music of Georges Bizet's 1875 opera "Carmen" and compiled posthumously by his friend Ernest Guiraud.  They adhere very closely to Bizet's orchestration.
  Title: Carmen: A Hip Hopera
  Passage: Carmen: A Hip Hopera is a 2001 musical film produced for television by MTV and directed by Robert Townsend.  The film stars Beyoncé in her debut acting role (predating her theatrical film debut in "Austin Powers in Goldmember"), Mos Def, Rah Digga, Wyclef Jean, Mekhi Phifer, Da Brat, Joy Bryant, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Jermaine Dupri and Lil' Bow Wow.  It is based upon Georges Bizet's 1875 opera "Carmen", set in Philadelphia and Los Angeles in modern times, and features a mostly original hip-hop/R&B score in place of Bizet's opera.
  Title: Georges Bizet
  Passage: Georges Bizet (] ; 25 October 18383 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the romantic era.  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.
  Title: Symphony in C (Bizet)
  Passage: The Symphony in C is an early work by the French composer Georges Bizet.  According to "Grove's Dictionary", the symphony "reveals an extraordinarily accomplished talent for a 17-year-old student, in melodic invention, thematic handling and orchestration."  Bizet started work on the symphony in C major on 29 October 1855, four days after turning 17, and finished it roughly a month later.  It was written while he was studying at the Paris Conservatoire under the composer Charles Gounod, and was evidently a student assignment.  Bizet showed no apparent interest in having it performed or published, and the piece was never played in his lifetime.  He used certain material from the symphony in later works, however.  There is no mention of the work in Bizet's letters, and it was unknown to his earlier biographers.  His widow, Geneviève Halévy (1849–1926), gave the manuscript to Reynaldo Hahn, who left it along with other papers to the archives of the conservatory library, where it was found in 1933 by Jean Chantavoine.  Soon thereafter, Bizet's first British biographer Douglas Charles Parker (1885–1970) showed the manuscript to the conductor Felix Weingartner, who led the first performance in Basel, Switzerland, on 26 February 1935.
  Title: Presenzano Hydroelectric Plant
  Passage: The Presenzano Hydroelectric Plant, officially known as the Domenico Cimarosa Hydroelectric Plant, is located along the Volturno River in Presenzano, Province of Caserta, Italy.  Using the pumped-storage hydroelectric method, it has an installed capacity of 1000 MW .  Construction began in 1979, it was finished in 1990 and the generators commissioned in 1991.  In 2004, the plant was renamed after Domenico Cimarosa.  Power is generated by releasing water from the upper Cesima reservoir down to the power plant which contains four reversible 250 MW Francis pump-turbine-generators.  After power production, the water is sent to the lower reservoir.  During periods of low energy demand, the same pump-generators pump water from the lower reservoir back to the upper where it becomes stored energy.  Power generation occurs when energy demand is high.  The upper reservoir, formed by an embankment dam, is located at an elevation of 643 m in the municipality of Sesto Campano in the Province of Isernia.  Both the upper and lower reservoirs have an active (or usable) storage capacity of 6000000 m3 .  The difference in elevation between both the upper and lower affords a hydraulic head of 495 m .
  Title: Domenico Cimarosa
  Passage: Domenico Cimarosa (] ; 17 December 1749, Aversa, Kingdom of Naples, now Province of Caserta – 11 January 1801, Venice) was an Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school.  He wrote more than eighty operas during his lifetime, including his masterpiece, "Il matrimonio segreto" (1792).  Cimarosa also wrote numerous instrumental works, both secular and religious in nature.
citations: Domenico Cimarosa Georges Bizet