Review (PDF) Carmen: English National Opera Guide 13 (Opera Guides)
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. 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 opera-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.
Series: Opera Guides
Paperback: 132 pages
Publisher: Oneworld Classics; Blg New edition (February 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0714544175
ISBN-13: 978-0714544175
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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Carmen is my favorite opera, but Prospere Mérimée novella really came as a surprise for me, because the story is told by Don José, a soldier who fell in love with the sensual and wild Carmen. Everybody knows how the two met and that their relationship had many ups and downs until the tragic end; but the story is page-turning and even more fascinating than the opera. In the last chapter, there is some information about the gypsies, because the French author studied about this nomad population; therefore he shares his knowledge with his readers: gypsy costumes, Romani terms are explained (throughout the novella), their believes, marriage, witchcraft etc.
I really recommend this book to anyone, but especially to teens. I have read it 3 times! This book is really an eye opener about drugs and about Christ. I would really like to read more books like this.
I love this story. I've watched the opera, the musical, the Spanish film, and mtv version. I also borrowed this book from my local library about two years ago read it and was planning to rent it again. But between then and now they sold all there old books. I'm glad I decided to purchase this book for myself after all it is one of my favorite stories. Would recommend this book for anyone whose looking for a quick read and a pretty decent story line.
My husband ordered this on here for ma, for Christmas. It arrived on Christmas Eve in time for him to wrap it and put it under the tree!! This is my favorite book and I recommend it to everyone I talk to!!
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Surprisingly, for as many years as I have loved Bizet's CARMEN, I had never read the novella until I began researching for a current writing project. It was a fascinating read partly because of my research, but also for the depth of the novella itself. It was interesting to realize some of the choices Bizet made when adapting the book for his opera.
The original text was french but the tale is in Spain.There are a lot of words without translation but sometimes the same character explain the meaning. In pos 297 "I call myself Don, because I have a right to it, and if I were at Elizondo I could show you my parchment genealogy"Some other words without translation in this edition you have an explication like the word "Veintiquatro" the editor said that it refer to a Magistrate in charge of the municipal police arrangements, and local government regulations.I find this edition could help to understand some gipsy and spanish old costumes.I recommend this book and this edition when you want to read classics books.
This is, of course, a translation from the original French. It is the story of a young soldier's infatuation with an enticing Gypsy woman, Carmen, and his stormy relationship with her, causing his ruin and her death. The story is more straightforward than Bizet's opera, a couple of characters are introduced (notably, Carmen's husband), some omitted, such as Don Jose's innocent domestic love, Michaela, and some deemphasized, such as the bullfighter whom we never see in the book but who still figures in the ending.This Carmen is a good and loyal mate to Don Jose in ways other than absolute sexual fidelity, but the disgraced soldier can not deal with her free ways nor the possibility than she might abandon him and, in the end, this jealousy destroys them both. Not a very long read, but worthwhile, entertaining, and a near-tragedy, for both Don Jose and Carmen.
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