Carmen Abroad: Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage
- Editor: Rowden, Clair
- Editor: Smith, Richard Langham
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Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Foreword and acknowledgements
- Part I . Establishment in Paris and the repertoire:
- 1. Carmen at home and abroad Clair Rowden and Richard Langham Smith
- 2. Carmen's second chance: revival in Vienna Laura Moeckli
- 3. Carmen faces Paris and the provinces Clair Rowden
- 4. Carmen dusted down: Albert Carre's 1898 revival at the Opera-Comique Michela Niccolai
- 5. Refashioning Carmen at the Theatre de La Monnaie, 1902 Bruno Forment
- 6. How Carmen became a repertory opera in Italy and in Italian Matthew Franke
- Part II . Across frontiers:
- 7. A new performance for a new world: Carmen in America Kristen M. Turner
- 8. The unstoppable march of time: Carmen, and New Orleans in transition Charlotte Bentley
- 9. The return of the habanera: Carmen's early reception in Latin America Jose Manuel Izquierdo, Jaime Cortes-Polania and Juan Francisco Sans
- 10. From Spain to Lusophone lands: Carmen in Portugal and Brazil David Cranmer
- 11. Carmen in the antipodes Kerry Murphy
- 12. Carmen, as seen and heard in Victorian Britain Paul Rodmell
- 13. Celtic Carmens: rebellion and redemption Linda J. Buckley and Jennifer Millar
- 14. Carmen for the Czechs and Germans, 1880 to 1945 Martin Nedbal
- 15. Carmen in Poland prior to 1918 Renata Suchowiejko
- 16. A woman or a demon: Carmen in the late nineteenth-century Nordic countries Ulla-Britta Broman-Kananen
- Part III . Localising Carmen:
- 17. Russian Carmens and 'Carmenism': from Imperial import to ideological benchmark Michelle Assay
- 18. The other reversed? Japan's assimilation of Carmen between 1885 and 1945 Naomi Matsumoto
- 19. Flamenco and the 'hispanicisation' of Bizet's Carmen in the Belle Epoque Michael Christoforidis and Elizabeth Kertesz
- 20. Carmen at home: between Andalusia and the Basque Provinces (1845-1936) Lola San Martin Arbide
- 21. Carmen in the midi amphitheatres: a 'tauro-comique' spectacle Sabine Teulon Lardic
- Selected Bibliography.