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Book Carmen on Screen

Download or read book Carmen on Screen written by Ann Davies and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A filmographic and bibliographic guide to the screen adaptations of the story of Carmen. 'Carmen' on Screen is a filmographic and bibliographic guide for scholars interested in the different versions of the story of Carmen in film since her original appearance in Mérimée's novella and its operatic adaptation byBizet. With over 110 screen versions between 1894 and 2005, it is the most adapted narrative in film. The volume offers: chronological listings of 82 feature films with credits and annotations of scholarly articles, selected citations of reviews and news articles, and listings of more general works on film adaptations of opera; works on the novella or on the opera; and, finally, lists of works on the 12 major female and 8 major male stars in the 82feature films. ANN DAVIES lectures in Spanish Studies and Film at the University of Newcastle; PHIL POWRIE is Professor of French Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle.

Book Georges Bizet s Carmen

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  • Author : Nelly Furman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-01-22
  • ISBN : 0190059168
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Georges Bizet s Carmen written by Nelly Furman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of Carmen endures across generations and continents, with one of the most frequently performed and instantly recognizable operatic scores of all time and a libretto derived from Prosper Mérimée's novella of the same name, written 30 years prior to the opera's 1875 debut. In Georges Bizet's Carmen--the latest volume in the Oxford Keynotes series--author Nelly Furman explores the evolution of Carmen's story and its meaning, illuminating how the titular heroine has maintained her status as a universally recognizable cultural icon. Grounded in Ludovic Halévy's and Henri Meilhac's libretto--and drawing on a wealth of mostly French critical theory--this book traces the textual, operatic, and cinematic tellings and retellings of the story, from its success as a novella in the industrial age through to its iconic position in our own cinematic era. As Furman delicately navigates the fraught terrain of racial and gendered discourse and ideology that Bizet's setting of Mérimée's work traverses, she uncovers the elements of the story that give it cultural salience and resonance, both in its own right and in support of Bizet's acclaimed musical score. In doing so, Furman reveals how past and present renderings of the Carmen tale mirror the changing concerns and shifting values of individual authors and their societies--and how each new rendering has helped to embed Carmen into the global conscience.

Book Manon

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  • Author : Burton D. Fisher
  • Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 1930841078
  • Pages : 30 pages

Download or read book Manon written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Massenet's MANON, featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis by Burton D. Fisher, noted opera author and lecturer.

Book Manon Lescaut

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  • Author : Alphonse Daudet
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1945
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Manon Lescaut written by Alphonse Daudet and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Depicting Desire

Download or read book Depicting Desire written by Rachael Langford and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a conference on "Textual Intersections in the Nineteenth Century: European Literatures, Histories, and Arts" held at Cardiff University in July 2001.

Book Massenet s Manon

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  • Author : Burton D. Fisher
  • Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
  • Release : 2008-01-30
  • ISBN : 1102009113
  • Pages : 33 pages

Download or read book Massenet s Manon written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-30 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Carmen Abroad

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  • Author : Richard Langham Smith
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-07-30
  • ISBN : 1108638813
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book Carmen Abroad written by Richard Langham Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Opera Companies and Houses of the United States

Download or read book Opera Companies and Houses of the United States written by Karyl Lynn Zietz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a state-by-state guide to more than 90 opera houses and companies in the United States. Inaugural performances, a history of opera in the city, an ordinary season's repertory, and performers and directors are highlighted.

Book Opera

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 816 pages

Download or read book Opera written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Musical Genre and Romantic Ideology

Download or read book Musical Genre and Romantic Ideology written by Matthew Gelbart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Romanticism gave rise to a powerful discourse equating genres to constrictive rules and forms that great art should transcend; and yet without the categories and intertextual references we hold in our minds, "music" would be meaningless noise. Musical Genre and Romantic Ideology teases out that paradox, charting the workings and legacies of Romantic artistic values such as originality and anti-commercialism in relation to musical genre. Genre's persistent power was amplified by music's inevitably practical social, spatial, and institutional frames. Furthermore, starting in the nineteenth century, all music, even the most anti-commercial, was stamped by its relationship to the marketplace, entrenching associations between genres and target publics (whether based on ideas of nation, gender, class, or more subtle aspects of identity). These newly strengthened correlations made genre, if anything, more potent rather than less, despite Romantic claims. In case studies from across nineteenth-century Europe engaging with canonical music by Bizet, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, and Brahms, alongside representative genres such as opéra-comique and the piano ballade, Matthew Gelbart explores the processes through which composers, performers, critics, and listeners gave sounds, and themselves, a sense of belonging. He examines genre vocabulary and discourse, the force of generic titles, how avant-garde music is absorbed through and into familiar categories, and how interpretation can be bolstered or undercut by genre agreements. Even in a modern world where transcription and sound recording can take any music into an infinite array of new spatial and social situations, we are still locked in the Romantics' ambivalent tussle with genre.

Book The Romantic Manon and Des Grieux

Download or read book The Romantic Manon and Des Grieux written by James P. Gilroy and published by Sherbrooke, Québec : Editions Naaman. This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elegant Edward

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  • Author : Edgar Wallace
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Elegant Edward written by Edgar Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reading the Other

Download or read book Reading the Other written by Carol de Dobay Rifelj and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines literature and philosophy to explore whether and to what extent we can know the thoughts and feelings of others

Book The Fate of Carmen

Download or read book The Fate of Carmen written by Evlyn Gould and published by . This book was released on 1996-10-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing proliferation of new versions of Carmen presents an ideal opportunity to study both the cultural power and renewability of certain literary texts and the relationship between literature and the performing arts. Since its introduction in Prosper Mérimée's 1845 novella, the Carmen character has been the subject of countless portrayals, from Bizet's 1874 opera, to various dramatic, dance and musical renditions, to films by such directors as Peter Brook, Jean-Luc Godard, Francesco Rosi, and Carlos Saura. In [this book], [the author] studies competing representations of Carmen as either dangerous femme fatale, liberated woman, or vanguard warrior in the battle between the sexes. [The author] locates the impetus for the continual renewal of this modern myth in the cultural ideal of Bohemia, tracing the history of this ideal from nineteenth-century Paris to the European Union of today"--Back cover.

Book Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annals of the Metropolitan Opera

Download or read book Annals of the Metropolitan Opera written by Gerald Fitzgerald and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-11 with total page 1343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: