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Georges Bizet: Carmen
Susan McClary
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Description for Georges Bizet: Carmen
Paperback. This handbook explores Bizet's famous opera in a number of contexts, from its origin in Merimee's short story to the film adaptations of the last thirty years. Series Editor(s): Wagner, Richard. Series: Cambridge Opera Handbooks. Num Pages: 176 pages, music examples, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: AVGC9; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 252.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Opera Handbooks
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521398978
SKU
V9780521398978
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Reviews for Georges Bizet: Carmen
"The book is a welcome resource for language teachers who wish to introduce the discussion of other art forms into the French literature class." Fred L. Toner, The French Review