Carmen Abroad. Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage
Livre collectif en anglais sous la direction de Richard Langham Smith et Clair Rowden. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020. Avec le soutien du Palazzetto Bru Zane.
From the 'old world' to the 'new' and back again, this transnational history of the performance and reception of Bizet's Carmen – whose subject has become a modern myth and its heroine a symbol – provides new understanding of the opera's enduring yet ever-evolving and resituated presence and popularity. This book examines three stages of cultural transfer: the opera's establishment in the repertoire; its performance, translation, adaptation and appropriation in Europe, the Americas and Australia; its cultural 'work' in Soviet Russia, in Japan in the era of Westernisation, in southern, regionalist France and in Carmen's 'homeland', Spain. As the volume reveals the ways in which Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe from its Parisian premiere, readers will understand how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse geographical, artistic and political contexts.
Website: Carmen Abroad.
Content
Part I - Establishment in Paris and the Repertoire
Clair Rowden & Richard Langham Smith – Carmen at Home and Abroad
Laura Moeckli – Carmen’s Second Chance: Revival in Vienna
Clair Rowden – Carmen Faces Paris and the Provinces
Michela Niccolai – Carmen Dusted Down: Albert Carré’s 1898 Revival at the Opéra-Comique
Bruno Forment – Refashioning Carmen at the Théâtre de La Monnaie, 1902
Matthew Franke – How Carmen Became a Repertory Opera in Italy and in Italian
Part II - Across Frontiers
Kristen M. Turner – A New Performance for the New World: Carmen in America
Charlotte Bentley – The Unstoppable March of Time: Carmen, and New Orleans in Transition
José Manuel Izquierdo, Jaime Cortés-Polanía, Juan Francisco Sans – The Return of the Habanera: Carmen’s Early Reception in Latin America
David Cranmer – From Spain to Lusophone Lands: Carmen in Portugal and Brazil
Kerry Murphy – Carmen in the Antipodes
Paul Rodmell – Carmen, as Seen and Heard in Victorian Britain
Linda J. Buckley & Jennifer Millar – Celtic Carmens: Rebellion and Redemption
Martin Nedbal – Carmen for the Czechs and Germans, 1880 to 1945
Renata Suchowiejko – Carmen in Poland prior to 1918
Ulla-Britta Broman-Kananen – A Woman or a Demon: Carmen in the Late Nineteenth-Century Nordic Countries
Part III - Localising Carmen
Michelle Assay – Russian Carmens and ‘Carmenism’: From Imperial Import to Ideological Benchmark
Naomi Matsumoto – The Other Reversed? Japan’s Assimilation of Carmen, 1885 to 1945
Michael Christoforidis & Elizabeth Kertesz – Flamenco and the ‘Hispanicisation’ of Bizet’s Carmen in the Belle Epoque
Lola San Martín Arbide – Carmen at Home: Between Andalusia and the Basque Provinces, 1845 to 1936
Sabine Teulon Lardic – Carmen in the Midi Amphitheatres: A ‘Tauro-Comique’ Spectacle
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publication date : 19/09/25