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Carmen, Mérimée's classic tale of passion and power, provided the inspiration for one of the world's most enduringly popular operas, and numerous films. Like Carmen, the other stories in this book, including Mateo Falcone, The Etruscan Vase, and The Venus of Ille, explore the clash of primitive and civilized values. This is the only selection of Mérimée's short stories available --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Each Opera Guide contains the complete text of an opera in the original, with a parallel English translation, introductory essays, numerous musical examples and illustrations. Bizet described himself as 'pagan' and Carmen has a savage Mediterranean beauty quite unique in music. These essays 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 opera-comique!': the translators show the ingenious and inspired ways in which he set about it. Lesley Wright analyses the score and Michel Rabaud shows the uncanny appopriateness of Nietzsche's support 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.
Carmen, Mérimée's classic tale of passion and power, provided the inspiration for one of the world's most enduringly popular operas, and numerous films. Like Carmen, the other stories in this book, including Mateo Falcone, The Etruscan Vase, and The Venus of Ille, explore the clash of primitive and civilized values. This is the only selection of Mérimée's short stories available --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Each Opera Guide contains the complete text of an opera in the original, with a parallel English translation, introductory essays, numerous musical examples and illustrations. Bizet described himself as 'pagan' and Carmen has a savage Mediterranean beauty quite unique in music. These essays 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 opera-comique!': the translators show the ingenious and inspired ways in which he set about it. Lesley Wright analyses the score and Michel Rabaud shows the uncanny appopriateness of Nietzsche's support 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.
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