9780521398978-0521398975-Georges Bizet: Carmen (Cambridge Opera Handbooks)

Georges Bizet: Carmen (Cambridge Opera Handbooks)

ISBN-13: 9780521398978
ISBN-10: 0521398975
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Susan McClary
Publication date: 1988
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 176 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780521398978
ISBN-10: 0521398975
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Susan McClary
Publication date: 1988
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 176 pages

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Georges Bizet: Carmen (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) (ISBN-13: 9780521398978 and ISBN-10: 0521398975), written by authors Susan McClary, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Musical Genres (Music) books. You can easily purchase or rent Georges Bizet: Carmen (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Musical Genres books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.44.

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Bizet's Carmen is probably the best known opera of the standard repertoire, yet its very familiarity often prevents us from approaching it with the seriousness it deserves. This Handbook explores the opera in a number of contexts, bringing to the surface the controversies over gender, race, class and musical propriety. After a study of Mérimée's story Carmen by Peter Robinson, Susan McClary examines the social tensions in nineteenth-century France that inform both that story and the opera, and traces the opera through its genesis and reception. The Handbook concludes with discussions of four films based on the opera. The volume contains a bibliography, music examples, and a synopsis and will be of interest to students, scholars, and operagoers.

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