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    Flamenco and the ‘Hispanicisation’ of Bizet’s Carmen in the Belle Epoque

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    Christoforidis, M; Kertesz, E
    Editor
    Langham Smith, R; Rowden, C
    Date
    2020
    Source Title
    Carmen Abroad: Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage
    Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Christoforidis, Michael; Kertesz, Elizabeth
    Affiliation
    Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
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    Christoforidis, M. & Kertesz, E. (2020). Flamenco and the ‘Hispanicisation’ of Bizet’s Carmen in the Belle Epoque. Langham Smith, R (Ed.). Rowden, C (Ed.). Carmen Abroad: Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage, (1), pp.304-319. Cambridge University Press.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/258546
    DOI
    10.1017/9781108674515
    Abstract
    For over a century, flamenco has been closely associated with productions of Carmen around the world. Bizet’s gypsy protagonist is often depicted as a flamenco performer while it has become commonplace to perceive aspects of flamenco in Bizet’s score. Yet this nexus only developed gradually during the first three decades of the opera’s existence. Bizet was largely unfamiliar with flamenco and composed Carmen while flamenco as we recognise it today was still coalescing in Spain, especially in the flamenco-orientated cafés cantantes of Seville and Madrid. During the Belle Époque the rise of flamenco and its global recognition occurred almost in tandem with Carmen’s establishment in the international operatic repertory. French and Spanish opera singers of this period, from Emma Calvé to Elena Fons and Maria Gay, sought hispanic authenticity for their Carmens by drawing on the Spanish entertainment cultures of Seville, Granada and even Barcelona. The tripartite structure of this chapter employs the conceit of offering different perspectives on the intersection of Carmen and flamenco in the Belle Époque loosely framed around the basic elements of the artform: toque y palos, baile and cante.

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