Michael Christoforidis & Elizabeth Kertesz, Carmen and the Staging of Spain. Recasting Bizet’s Opera in the Belle Époque

Since its Parisian premiere in 1875, few operas have managed to have the same far-reaching impact across the world as Bizet’s Carmen. Co-authored by Michael Christoforidis and Elizabeth Kertesz (both based at the University of Melbourne), the book explores how the opera became synonymous with Spain...

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Pubblicato in:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/transposition,
Autore principale: San Martín Arbide, Lola
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Transposition 2019
Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto:Since its Parisian premiere in 1875, few operas have managed to have the same far-reaching impact across the world as Bizet’s Carmen. Co-authored by Michael Christoforidis and Elizabeth Kertesz (both based at the University of Melbourne), the book explores how the opera became synonymous with Spain (p. xv), and analyses the crystallization of a series of national and international images of Spanish culture through what they have termed the staging of Spain. In order to do so, they invite the...