Author : Mary Dibbern
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781576470329
A word-by-word translation in English and IPA, and annotated guides to the dialogue and recitative versions of the opera, this book is a complete reference for anyone studying or producing Bizet's Carmen. It provides all the material necessary for practical use by singers, conductors, coaches, stage directors, opera producers, students and teachers. - from the publisher's notes.
Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 0977132005
A comprehensive guide to Bizet's CARMEN, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with French/English side-by side, and over 30 music highlight examples."
Author : Susan McClary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 1992-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521398978
Bizet's Carmen is probably the best known opera of the standard repertoire, yet its very familiarity often prevents us from approaching it with the seriousness it deserves. This handbook explores the opera in a number of contexts, bringing to the surface the controversies over gender, race, class and musical propriety that greeted its premiere and that have been rekindled by the recent spate of film versions. Beginning with a study of the Mérimée story by Peter Robinson and an examination of the social tensions in nineteenth-century France that inform both that story and the opera, the book traces the latter through its genesis and reception. The central core of the book presents a close reading of the opera that offers new interpretive possibilities. The handbook concludes with discussions of four films based on the opera: Carmen Jones and the versions of Carmen by Carlos Saura, Peter Brook, and Francesco Rosi. The volume contains a bibliography, music examples, and a synopsis.
Author : Nelly Furman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 0190059141
"The heroine of the most performed opera in the world since 1875, Carmen has become a universal cultural icon. She has appeared in a multitude of ballets, on stage as well as ice rinks, and in some eighty international films. The success of Bizet' opera owns a lot to the libretto's singular accounting of the 1845 short story on which it is based. In her close textual analyses of Ludovic Halévy's and Henri Meilhac's libretto and Prosper Mérimée's novella, the author strives to account for the multiple aspects of Carmen's attraction that support George Bizet's acclaimed musical score. Through its multi-facetted cultural renditions through time and place, the story of Carmen can be said to have attained the status of a myth. Myths are stories that speak to us, in our own time and place, about personal, social, or cultural issues"--
Author : Georges Bizet
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Librettos
ISBN :
Author : Richard Langham Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108481612
A transnational history of the performance, reception, translation, adaptation and appropriation of Bizet's Carmen from 1875 to 1945. This volume explores how Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe, and how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse contexts.
Author :
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781579125080
Contains the complete text of the libretto with annotations in both English and Italian and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the principal singers and conductor. The two accompanying CDs contain the complete opera sung in Italian.
Author : Prosper Mérimée
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 1893
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Michael Christoforidis
Publisher :
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195384563
Georges Bizet's Carmen and its staging of an exoticized Spain was progressively reimagined between its 1875 Paris premiere and 1915. This book explores Carmen's dynamic interaction with Spanishness in this cosmopolitan age of spectacle, across operatic productions, parodies, and theatrical adaptations from Spain to Paris, London, and New York.
Author : Ninotchka Bennahum
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 081957354X
The figure of Carmen has emerged as a cipher for the unfettered female artist. Dance historian and performance theorist Ninotchka Bennahum shows us Carmen as embodied historical archive, a figure through which we come to understand the promises and dangers of nomadic, transnational identity, and the immanence of performance as an expanded historical methodology. Bennahum traces the genealogy of the female Gypsy presence in her iconic operatic role from her genesis in the ancient Mediterranean world, her emergence as flamenco artist in the architectural spaces of Islamic Spain, her persistent manifestation in Picasso, and her contemporary relevance on stage. This many-layered geography of the Gypsy dancer provides the book with its unique nonlinear form that opens new pathways to reading performance and writing history. Includes rare archival photographs of Gypsy artists.
