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Bizet’s Carmen Uncovered

Richard Langham Smith

Boydell 340pp (hb) £39.95

This is a deeply researched, illuminating volume that no Carmenophile or budding producer can be without. Sadly, it is marred by careless copy editing and an inadequate index: for instance, the Carlist Wars are mentioned, but with no explanation of who the militant forces were or why, and the wars don’t appear in the index. Also, unpaged references to distant plate numbers take time to find.

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