Carmen Abroad: Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage - Langham Smith, Richard; Rowden, Clair; Forment, Bruno 1978- (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2020)
"This book was born out of a previous collaboration on Carmen between its two editors: their work on the Peters Edition of the opera. Styled as a 'Performance Urtext' this edition focussed on bringing to the printed page not only the musical text, but also many of the details of how Carmen was first performed. Both editors had thus gone through every bar of the opera with a fine-tooth comb: some sort of follow-up seemed inevitable. The idea of a book on 'Carmen abroad' was hatched, focussed - like the edition of its performance. From the outset we were encouraged by the enthusiastic reception of the idea by Cambridge University Press and we began to approach potential contributors. Then the project trifurcated: not only would we have a book, we would somehow bring together contributors in a conference, and we would have a website. At first an international online video-conference was envisaged but practicalities - not least of time-zone differences - proved insurmountable. An International Initiatives Grant from Cardiff University and a Music & Letters Trust award provided the answer by providing funding for a two-day academic conference which would not have come into being without the energy, fruitful exchanges and support of all our collaborators"--
Establishment in Paris and the repertoire. Carmen at home and abroad / Clair Rowden and Richard Langham Smith ; Carmen's second chance: revival in Vienna / Laura Moeckli ; Carmen faces Paris and the provinces / Clair Rowden ; Carmen dusted down: Albert Carré's 1898 revival at the Opéra-Comique / Michela Niccolai ; Refashioning Carmen at the Théâtre de La Monnaie, 1902 / Bruno Forment ; How Carmen became a repertory opera in Italy and in Italian / Matthew Franke -- Across frontiers. A new performance for a new world: Carmen in America / Kristen M. Turner ; The unstoppable march of time: Carmen, and New Orleans in transition / Charlotte Bentley ; The return of the habanera: Carmen's early reception in Latin America / José Manuel Izquierdo, Jaime Cortés-Polanía and Juan Francisco Sans ; From Spain to Lusophone lands: Carmen in Portugal and Brazil / David Cranmer ; Carmen in the Antipodes / Kerry Murphy ; Carmen, as seen and heard in Victorian Britain / Paul Rodmell ; Celtic Carmens: rebellion and redemption / Linda J. Buckley and Jennifer Millar ; Carmen for the Czechs and Germans, 1880 to 1945 / Martin Nedbal ; Carmen in Poland prior to 1918 / Renata Suchowiejko ; A woman or a demon: Carmen in the late nineteenth-century Nordic countries / Ulla-Britta Broman-Kananen -- Localising Carmen. Russian Carmens and 'Carmenism': from imperial import to ideological benchmark / Michelle Assay ; The other reversed?: Japan's assimilation of Carmen between 1885 and 1945 / Naomi Matsumoto ; Flamenco and the 'hispanicisation' of Bizet's Carmen in the Belle Époque / Michael Christoforidis and Elizabeth Kertesz ; Carmen at home: between Andalusia and the Basque provinces (1845-1936) / Lola San Martín Arbide ; Carmen in the Midi amphitheatres: a 'tauro-comique' spectacle / Sabine Teulon Lardic.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Bizet, Georges -- 1838-1875; Opéra-Comique (Paris, France); 19th Century (1801-1900); 20th Century (1901-2000); Opera; Legacy; Staging; World