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Carmen Jones
.
This 1954 film based on the Broadway musical of the same
name won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
The film starred Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge (whose performance
was the first by a Black actress to be nominated for an Academy Award).
The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film
Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or
aesthetically significant.”
Cisneros, Sandra.
“La Fabulosa: A Texas Operetta” in
Woman Hollering Creek
and Other Stories
. Cisneros reimagines
Carmen
in Texas.
Glade, Jim.
“The Last Bullfight.”
The Atlantic. theatlantic.com
. August 1, 2015.
Web. Controversy in Colombia over bullfighting.
Works Cited
Bennahum, Ninotchka Devorah.
Carmen, a Gypsy Geography
. Connecticut:
Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
Downes, William Howe.
Spanish Ways and By-ways, with Glimpse of the
Pyrenees
. Boston: Cupples, Upham, & Company, 1883. Quoted in
Espana:
American Artists and the Spanish Experience
, M. Elizabeth Boone. New York:
Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1998.
Halévy, Ludovic.
Quoted in “Carmen: Victim or Seductress?” Crystal Young-
Otterstrom.
The Musician’s Lounge: Official Blog of the Utah Symphony
.
utahsymphony.org
. January, 2010. Web. July 20, 2016.
Halévy, Ludovic and Henri Meilhac.
Carmen
. Translated by Alan Gregory,
1964.
DM’s opera site: libretti & information. murashev.com
. Web. July 13,
2016.
Huizenga, Tom.
“Carmen on the Couch: Analyzing Bizet’s Bold Heroine.”
NPR
Music: Weekend Edition Saturday. npr.org
. September 22, 2007. Web. July 23,
2016.
Parker, D.C.
Georges Bizet: His Life and Works
.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench,
Trubner & Co, Ltd, 1926.
Photo: Lynn Lane/Houston Grand Opera