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Carmen - English National Opera Guide 13 (includes libretto)
Georges Bizet Price: $19.00
Bizet describes himself as ‘pagan’ and Carmen has a savage Mediterranean
beauty quite unique in music. The essays included in this Guide suggest
some reasons for its legendary theatrical appeal
Martin Cooper describes the traditional mixture of spoken words and song that stimulated Bizet to exclaim ‘I want to revolutionise opéra-comique!’ the translators show the ingenious and inspired ways in which he set about it
Lesley Wright analyses the score and Michael Rabaud shows the uncanny appropriateness of Nietzche’s support for Bizet in his famous attacks on the decadence of Wagner
This is the first time that the complete text of the verses that Bizet set to music and the full dialogue (much of it especially translated for this Opera Guide), have ever been published
English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide
stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera
in English and the original
