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Bizet, Georges. --- Opera's. --- Bizet, Georges --- Bizet, Georges, --- Opera
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Bizet's Carmen Uncovered exposes the myths and stereotypes that so often surround this much loved opera by exploring its first staging, and the particularly Spanish contexts in which the opera was conceived, written, and staged. What were the forces that brought Carmen to the Operatic stage? There were certainly many: for example, the liberation of Spain from the Napoleonic rule in 1813; the subsequent emigration of Spanish artists and musicians to form an active community in Paris; the mid-century mushrooming of interest in visiting Spain facilitated by the establishment of railways. The first part of this book explores the reasons behind the French mania for Spain, and the second demonstrates how the travels and writings of Prosper Mérimée, particularly in his novella Carmen, but also in his earlier writings sent back to Paris from his first visit to Spain in the 1830s, were incorporated into the opera. What were the stories he incorporated into the fateful tale of the soldier who murders his gypsy lover? And how important was the Spanish background to this tragic tale? This book explores how the stereotypes of Andalusian-gypsy spectacle, banditry, and the fiestas of the bullfight contributed to the eventual success of Bizet's opera. How did Bizet and his librettists, Meilhac and Halévy -- and the scenographic team -- capture the spirit of Spain so strongly as to seduce opera-goers around the world? And how did it hybridise real Spanish music and French Opera with the essential 'moments' of Spanish life so important to Mérimée and his librettists? The original staging of the opera is used to examine both 'places' and characters, in particular of realities and mythologies about gypsies in the nineteenth century. It concludes with the first ways in which the opera reached the stage, both in terms of its scenography and how it was sung, played, and acted. Copiously illustrated with materials emanating from before the first production, the book reveals some of the realities of the Spain which went into this ground-breaking opera, to this day continually re-invented with new angles, new settings, and new interpretations.
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From the 'old world' to the 'new' and back again, this transnational history of the performance and reception of Bizet's Carmen - whose subject has become a modern myth and its heroine a symbol - provides new understanding of the opera's enduring yet ever-evolving and resituated presence and popularity. This book examines three stages of cultural transfer: the opera's establishment in the repertoire; its performance, translation, adaptation and appropriation in Europe, the Americas and Australia; its cultural 'work' in Soviet Russia, in Japan in the era of Westernisation, in southern, regionalist France and in Carmen's 'homeland', Spain. As the volume reveals the ways in which Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe from its Parisian premiere, readers will understand how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse geographical, artistic and political contexts.
Bizet, Georges, --- Bize, Zh. --- Bize, Zhorzh, --- Bizet, Alexandre César Léopold, --- Bizet, G. --- Bizet, George, --- Bizet, Georges --- Bizet, Georgio, --- Pi-tsʻai, Chʻiao-chih, --- Appreciation. --- Performances.
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Bizet, Georges, --- Bize, Zh. --- Bize, Zhorzh, --- Bizet, Alexandre César Léopold, --- Bizet, G. --- Bizet, George, --- Bizet, Georges --- Bizet, Georgio, --- Pi-tsʻai, Chʻiao-chih, --- Bizet, Alexandre César Léopold Georges --- Biography
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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 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.
Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875. Carmen. --- Bizet, Georges, --- Opera --- Operas --- Realism in opera --- Musical analysis --- Opéra --- Opéras --- Réalisme à l'opéra --- Analyse musicale --- Scenarios --- Scénarios
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Music --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, --- Bizet, Georges, --- Aesthetics. --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Musical aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- Music theory --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Philosophy --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm --- Nietzsche, Friedrich --- Nietzsche, Friederich
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The first English translation of Bizet's letters and journals from his stay in Italy, with explanatory texts from one of the leading authorities on the composer's life and music.
Composers --- Bizet, Georges, --- Travel --- Italy --- Description and travel. --- Bize, Zh. --- Bize, Zhorzh, --- Bizet, Alexandre César Léopold, --- Bizet, G. --- Bizet, George, --- Bizet, Georges --- Bizet, Georgio, --- Pi-tsʻai, Chʻiao-chih, --- Description and travel --- Composers. --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Bizet. --- Italian influence. --- Italy. --- composer's journey. --- creative process. --- musical education. --- musical style.
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Bizet, Georges, --- Spain --- Espanja --- Spanien --- Hiszpania --- Spanish State --- España --- Estado Español --- Espagne --- Hispania --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanye --- Shpanie --- Reino de España --- Kingdom of Spain --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Espainiako Erresuma --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Espanya --- Espanha --- スペイン --- Supein --- イスパニア --- Isupania --- In opera.
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