Georges Bizet - Carmen

Name: Georges Bizet - Carmen
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ISBN: 9780521398978

ISBN-10: 0521398975

ISBN-13: 9780521398978

Edition: 1992

Authors: Susan McClary, Richard Wagner

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Description:

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 Mrime'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…

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/9/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments



Merimee's 'Carmen' Peter Robinson



The genesis of Bizet's Carmen



Images of race, class and gender in nineteenth-century French culture



The musical languages of Carmen



Synopsis and analysis



The reception of Carmen



Carmen on film


Notes


Bibliography


Index