Carmen
"Wholehearted recommendation of this valuable new series." "TLS"
"Bizet describes himself as 'pagan', and Carmen has a savage Mediterranean beauty quite unique in music. The essays included in this guide suggest some reasons for its legendary theatrical appeal. Martin Cooper describes the traditional mixture of spoken words and song that stimulated Bizet to exclaim, 'I want to revolutionize opera-comique!': the translators show the ingenious and inspired ways in which he set about it. Les mer
Contents: Introduction, Nicholas John; Opera-Comique, Martin Cooper; A Musical Commentary, Lesley A. Wright; 'Carmen': A tragedy oflove, sun and death, Michel Rabaud; Carmen: French text by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy after the novel by Prosper Merimee; Carmen: English version by Nell and John Moody"
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Overture Publishing
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780714544175
- Utgivelsesår
- 2011
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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"Wholehearted recommendation of this valuable new series." "TLS"