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Author:   Richard Langham Smith (Royal College of Music, London) ,  Clair Rowden (Cardiff University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 25.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 17.50cm
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9781108481618

ISBN 10:   1108481612
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   30 July 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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-Polanía 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 Martín Arbide; 21. Carmen in the midi amphitheatres: a 'tauro-comique' spectacle Sabine Teulon Lardic; Selected Bibliography.

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'... Richard Langham Smith ... shows us previously unconsidered sides of the seductive cigariere, first described by French author Prosper Merimee.' Opera Now

Author Information

Richard Langham Smith is a Research Professor at the Royal College of Music, London. He edited Carmen for Edition Peters and his translation of the libretto can be found in the Overture Opera Guide. With Cambridge University Press, he is the author of the Cambridge Opera Handbook for Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande and the editor of Debussy Studies. In 1995 he was made Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres for services to French culture and music. Clair Rowden is a Reader in Musicology at Cardiff University. Her work includes collaborating with Richard Langham Smith on Carmen (Edition Peters) and the recent curation of www.carmenabroad.org to accompany this book. The co-edited collection Musical Theatre in Europe, 1830-1945 was published in 2017, and her book Opera and Parody in Paris, 1860-1900 appears in 2020. She regularly writes programme notes for Opéra-Comique, Wexford Festival Opera, Welsh National Opera, the Royal Opera House and the Salzburg Festival.

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