"O ma Carmen": Bizet's Fateful Gypsy in Portrayals from 1875 to the Present

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
•   1. “What Is It?”
•   2. Breaking Away
•   3. North, South, East, West
•   4. Home Again
•   5. Emma Calvé and the New Realism
•   6. More Than the Singing
•   7. Farrar, Film and Psychology
•   8. In the Time of Dictators
•   9. American Idyll
• 10. Sea Change
• 11. 100 and Counting
• 12. Game Change
• Appendix A. Alphabetical Listing of Singers Mentioned in the Text
• Appendix B. Chronology of Premieres and Significant Performances
• Appendix C. Discography
• Appendix D. Videography
• Chapter Notes
• Bibliography
• Index