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Rigorously researched and illustriously illustrated, this volume turns up all kinds of interesting details about Carmen's immediate afterlife-as an opera and also in transformations into burlesque, ballet and parody, not least in its re-importation into Spain herself. * Richard Langham Smith, Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres FRCM FRSA, Research Professor, Royal College of Music *

A comparison of the exotica of Carmen as a foreign ideal of Spain with the privileged view of Spaniards could be distilled down to ideas of cultural appropriation, but the authors go beyond that and offer much more. a Summing up: Recommended -- CHOICE Rigorously researched and illustriously illustrated, this volume turns up all kinds of interesting details about Carmen's immediate afterlife-as an opera and also in transformations into burlesque, ballet and parody, not least in its re-importation into Spain herself. -- Richard Langham Smith, Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres FRCM FRSA, Research Professor, Royal College of Music An impressively researched exploration of the multilayered early performance history of Carmen, including its iterations in parodies, the music hall, sheet music, and recordings. The authors pay tribute to the intelligence with which successive performers molded the Carmen role to suit local tastes. -- Jo Labanyi, Professor of Spanish, New York University

An impressively researched exploration of the multilayered early performance history of Carmen, including its iterations in parodies, the music hall, sheet music, and recordings. The authors pay tribute to the intelligence with which successive performers molded the Carmen role to suit local tastes. * Jo Labanyi, Professor of Spanish, New York University * Rigorously researched and illustriously illustrated, this volume turns up all kinds of interesting details about Carmen's immediate afterlife-as an opera and also in transformations into burlesque, ballet and parody, not least in its re-importation into Spain herself. * Richard Langham Smith, Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres FRCM FRSA, Research Professor, Royal College of Music *

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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.

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