Bizet's Carmen Uncovered
- ISBN-10
- 1783275251
- ISBN-13
- 9781783275250
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 340
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-01-22
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer
- Author
- Richard Langham Smith
Description
Bizet's Carmen Uncovered exposes the myths and stereotypes that so often surround this much loved opera by exploring its first staging, and the particularly Spanish contexts in which the opera was conceived, written, and staged.
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