Carmen (1915 Cecil B. DeMille film) so DeMille instructed his screenwriter brother William to base his scenario on the public domain novella "Carmen" by Prosper Mérimée. The novella's Carmen was more wilful and manipulative than the opera version. For instance, William included a cigarette factory fight scene from the book which was not found in the opera. Composer Hugo Riesenfeld arranged the orchestral score, his first of many for film, which "was" based on that of Bizet's opera. It was performed at the premiere and other prestigious screenings. There have been two restorations of Riesenfeld's score: the first was by Gillian Anderson, recorded with the London
Opera in Canada Canadian operas were known. Roberta Geddes-Harvey's "La Terre Bonne, or the Land of the Maple Leaf" was first performed in 1903. Joseph Vézina's operetta "La Fétiche" from 1912 deals with First Nations subjects like the conflict between the Iroquois and the French settlers in the early eighteenth century. J.Ulric Voyer's three-act opera "L’Intendant Bigot" was performed in Montreal and Quebec City in 1929. In the 1940s Healey Willan's "Transit through Fire" (1942) was broadcast by the CBC; and Eugène Lapierre's operas "La Père des amours" (1942) and "La Vagabond de la gloire" (1947) were based on the lives of Joseph