Carmen and the Staging of Spain: Recasting Bizet's Opera in the Belle Epoque

ISBN-13: 9780195384567 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 344 str.

Michael Christoforidis; Elizabeth Kertesz

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Carmen and the Staging of Spain is the product of exhaustive and careful research. Its documentation is presented in often lengthy footnotes rather than the usual endnotes. ... There are detailed descriptions of performances of the opera and adaptations it inspired and the book is richly illustrated. Carmen and the Staging of Spain is a fascinating read for opera fans and students of cultural history.

O autorze

Michael Christoforidis lectures in musicology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish music and dance, and its impact on Western culture, and is the author of Manuel de Falla and Visions of Spanish Music (Routledge, 2017). Elizabeth Kertesz is a research fellow at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. Having written her PhD on the critical reception of Ethel Smyth's operas, her current research interests include Spanish-themed music and theatrical entertainment, and film music from the Belle Époque into the early twentieth century.