Georges Bizet: Carmen
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- Author: Susan McClary, University of California, Los Angeles
- Date Published: July 1992
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521398978
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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. After a study of Mérimée's story Carmen by Peter Robinson, Susan McClary examines the social tensions in nineteenth-century France that inform both that story and the opera, and traces the opera through its genesis and reception. The Handbook concludes with discussions of four films based on the opera. The volume contains a bibliography, music examples, and a synopsis and will be of interest to students, scholars, and operagoers.
Read more- Lively and comprehensive history of the opera and its background
- Contains analyses of four Carmen films based on the opera: Carmen Jones and the versions by Carlos Saura, Peter Brook and Francesco Rosi
- Examines the opera within the social history of nineteenth-century France
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"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
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- Date Published: July 1992
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521398978
- length: 176 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 138 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.246kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Mérimée's 'Carmen' Peter Robinson
2. The genesis of Bizet's Carmen
3. Images of race, class and gender in nineteenth-century French culture
4. The musical languages of Carmen
5. Synopsis and analysis
6. The reception of Carmen
7. Carmen on film
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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