Georges Bizet: Carmen

by Susan McClary

Book Overview

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 M rim e's story Carmen by Peter Robinson, Susan McClary examines the social tensions in nineteenth-century France...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521398975
• ISBN13: 9780521398978
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"