Smith, R. L. (2024) Calibrating Carmen: ‘the true Carmen’, HIP and HOP versions, and the one without the Habanera. The Musical Times, 165 (1969) pp. 35-46. ISSN 0027-4666 (print) 2397-5318 (online)
Abstract
Carmen, premiered at the opéra-comique in 1875, will be 150 years old on 3 March 2025, so it is perhaps an appropriate time for a catch-up. Is there anything new to report, one might ask? Well, yes, quite a lot: opposing factions in attitudes to production, relaxation of our dedication to Urtexts; widening of the frontiers of musicology to embrace scenography, costume and stage movements, for example. Not to forget how important this very magazine has been in commentating on the work, especially in a seminal article by Winton Dean it published in the 1960s.
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