Carmen Calvo

Abstract Carmen in Diaspora explores why the Carmen story, which originally appeared in Prosper Mérimée’s eponymous 1845 novella and came to prominence through Georg...

Chapter 2 considers the importance of Carmen’s early productions in London in light of long-standing local interest in Spanish-themed song and dance. The success of the opera’s 187...

Carmen Blacker was an outstanding scholar of Japanese culture, known internationally for her writings on religion, myth and folklore – her most notable work being The Catalpa Bow: ...

In Chapter 7, the focus returns to Spain, where Sevillian opera singer Elena Fons built on her own local heritage to create a new authenticity as Carmen, applauded throughout the L...

The notion that Spanish audiences and critics rejected Carmen as an exoticist abomination is interrogated in Chapter 3, which investigates the opera’s arrival in Madrid during the ...