Carmen Abroad
<I>Carmen</I> Abroad
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.
- Explores how Bizet's Carmen swiftly travelled the globe, and how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse contexts
- Reveals how opera travels, is translated, adapted and appropriated for different artistic, political and social ends
- The global map and interactive timeline on www.carmenabroad.org provides an engaging supplement to this voyage of discovery
Reviews & endorsements
‘… Richard Langham Smith … shows us previously unconsidered sides of the seductive cigarière, first described by French author Prosper Mérimée.’ Opera Now
'… an intriguing, productive assembly of Carmen’s sojourns around the globe that will enrich our understanding of Bizet’s opera and provide new paths for future research.' Susan Rutherford, Revue de musicologie
Product details
June 2022Paperback
9781108723039
385 pages
244 × 168 × 19 mm
0.67kg
11 tables
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Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Foreword and acknowledgements
- Part I. Establishment in Paris and the repertoire:
- 1. Carmen at home and abroad Clair Rowden and Richard Langham Smith
- 2. Carmen's second chance: revival in Vienna Laura Moeckli
- 3. Carmen faces Paris and the provinces Clair Rowden
- 4. Carmen dusted down: Albert Carré's 1898 revival at the Opéra-Comique Michela Niccolai
- 5. Refashioning Carmen at the Théâtre de La Monnaie, 1902 Bruno Forment
- 6. How Carmen became a repertory opera in Italy and in Italian Matthew Franke
- Part II. Across frontiers:
- 7. A new performance for a new world: Carmen in America Kristen M. Turner
- 8. The unstoppable march of time: Carmen, and New Orleans in transition Charlotte Bentley
- 9. The return of the habanera: Carmen's early reception in Latin America José Manuel Izquierdo, Jaime Cortés-PolanÃa and Juan Francisco Sans
- 10. From Spain to Lusophone lands: Carmen in Portugal and Brazil David Cranmer
- 11. Carmen in the antipodes Kerry Murphy
- 12. Carmen, as seen and heard in Victorian Britain Paul Rodmell
- 13. Celtic Carmens: rebellion and redemption Linda J. Buckley and Jennifer Millar
- 14. Carmen for the Czechs and Germans, 1880 to 1945 Martin Nedbal
- 15. Carmen in Poland prior to 1918 Renata Suchowiejko
- 16. A woman or a demon: Carmen in the late nineteenth-century Nordic countries Ulla-Britta Broman-Kananen
- Part III. Localising Carmen:
- 17. Russian Carmens and 'Carmenism': from Imperial import to ideological benchmark Michelle Assay
- 18. The other reversed? Japan's assimilation of Carmen between 1885 and 1945 Naomi Matsumoto
- 19. Flamenco and the 'hispanicisation' of Bizet's Carmen in the Belle Époque Michael Christoforidis and Elizabeth Kertesz
- 20. Carmen at home: between Andalusia and the Basque Provinces (1845–1936) Lola San MartÃn Arbide
- 21. Carmen in the midi amphitheatres: a 'tauro-comique' spectacle Sabine Teulon Lardic
- Selected Bibliography.
