Bizet, Georges

Bizet's Carmen uncovered

by Smith, Richard Langham

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Part I.Preparing the ground.Vitoria and Waterloo : French music and the Peninsular Wars --Pictures and jottings : Carmen and the rise of Andalusian tourism --Spain on the Paris stage --Part II.Fictions, realities, structures.From novella to libretto --Libretto into opera --The f…

Bizet's Carmen uncovered

by Smith, Richard Langham

0 Type: Book

"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 mus…

Exoticism began to emerge in French song in the 1840's, due in part to the popularity of exotic operas and in part to the exotic literary trend of the 1830's which provided French composers with ample texts to set. The earliest exotic songs were simple attempts to portray non-Eu…