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Operas Based on Novels (Book Guide): La Boheme, Carmen, Madama Butterfly, the Grapes of Wrath, Manon Lescaut, Werther, Wuthering Heights

Operas Based on Novels (Book Guide): La Boheme, Carmen, Madama Butterfly, the Grapes of Wrath, Manon Lescaut, Werther, Wuthering Heights


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 34. Chapters: La boheme, Carmen, Madama Butterfly, The Grapes of Wrath, Manon Lescaut, Werther, Wuthering Heights, Koanga, The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Little Women, Willie Stark, La Navarraise, The End of the Affair, Das verratene Meer, The Devil in Love, Genji monogatari, Volo di notte, Silvano, Die todlichen Wunsche. Excerpt: Carmen is a French opera comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Merimee, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies (1824) by Alexander Pushkin. Merimee had read the poem in Russian by 1840 and translated it into French in 1852. The opera premiered at the Opera-Comique of Paris on 3 March 1875, but its opening run was denounced by the majority of critics. It was almost withdrawn after its fourth or fifth performance, and although this was avoided, ultimately having 48 performances in its first run, it did little to bolster sagging receipts at the Opera-Comique. Near the end of this run, the theatre was giving tickets away in order to stimulate attendance. Bizet died of a heart attack, aged 36, on 3 June 1875, never knowing how popular Carmen would become. In October 1875 it was produced in Vienna, to critical and popular success, which began its path to worldwide popularity. It was not staged again at the Opera Comique until 1883. Bizet's final opera not only transformed the opera comique genre that had been static for half a century, it virtually killed it. Within a few years, the traditional distinction between opera (serious, heroic and declamatory) and opera comique (light-hearted, bourgeois and conversational with spoken dialogue) disappeared. Moreover, Carmen nourished a movement that was to win both celebrity and notoriety first in Ital...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781234591373
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 36
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 82 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1234591375
  • Publisher Date: 08 Oct 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: La Boheme, Carmen, Madama Butterfly, the Grapes of Wrath, Manon Lescaut, Werther, Wuthering Heights
  • Width: 189 mm


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