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The character "Carmen" has been the constant subject of film treatment since the earliest days of cinema. Researchers at Newcastle University's Centre for Research into Film and Media have identified more than 70 films, including at least 40 silent features, which are based on the Carmen story. Many of these depart from the storyline in Mérimée's original, though all retain the broad themes of jealousy and thwarted tragic love.

The films range across many languages and cultures, and have been the work of prominent directors including Raoul Walsh, Otto Preminger and Jean-Luc Godard. Preminger's version, Carmen Jones (1954), was adapted from a Broadway musical of the same name first shown in 1943. The story is transposed to 1940s Chicago, and employs an all-black cast. Robert Townsend's 2001 film, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, starring Beyoncé Knowles, is a more recent attempt to create an Afro-American version. Francesco Rosi's highly praised film of 1984, with Julia Migenes and Plácido Domingo, is generally faithful to the original story and to Bizet's music.

Adaptations

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Fantasies

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A number of classical composers have used themes from Carmen as the basis for works of their own.

Some of these, such as Pablo de Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy (1883) for violin and orchestra, Franz Waxman's Carmen Fantasie (1946) for violin and orchestra and Vladimir Horowitz's Variations on a theme from Carmen for solo piano are virtuoso showpieces in the tradition of fantasias on operatic themes. Frank Proto has also written virtuoso showpieces based on the opera for trumpet (for Doc Severinsen) and double bass (for François Rabbath).

Ferruccio Busoni wrote a Sonatina (No. 6) for piano named Fantasia da camera super Carmen (1920), which uses themes from the opera. There are also two suites of music drawn directly from Bizet's opera, often recorded and performed in orchestral concerts.

Films

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The following is a list of film adaptations, based on the opera, the novella, or both:

Raquel Meller as Carmen (1926)

Dance and theater

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  • Carmen Jones. A 1943 Broadway musical adaptation with book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The Bizet score was adapted and orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett.
  • In 1949 Roland Petit created a ballet entitled Carmen, based on Bizet's music and a similar plot, since performed over 5,000 times.[1]
  • Rodion Shchedrin wrote a Carmen ballet (1967) directly based on the opera.
  • Choreographer Matthew Bourne has created an updated version of Carmen, called Matthew Bourne's The Car Man, with its score built largely upon the Shchedrin musical adaptation.
  • Peter Brook adapted the opera into a dramatico-musical work La Tragédie de Carmen.
  • Eric V. Cruz of the Philippines created Carmen, a full-length ballet based on the original story and music of Carmen for the Dance Concert Company headed by Vella C Damian.
  • Robert Sund choreographed a 45-minute contemporary ballet of Carmen to a score by Miles Davis for Ballet Pacifica in 1997.
  • Ballet Flamenco de Madrid has performed a flamenco version of Carmen worldwide, beginning in Madrid in 2003.[2]
  • Ramón Oller wrote a Carmen ballet (2007) based on the opera[3]
  • The Royal Winnipeg Ballet premiered a new version of Mauricio Wainrot's Carmen, The Passion in January 2008.[4]
  • Flow: El Musical, presented at the Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré in September 2009 is an adaptation of Carmen. The cast included Mary Ann Acevedo and other former participants in Objetivo Fama.[5]
  • Dutch choreographer Didy Veldman was commissioned to create a new full evening work with orchestra for Ballet Bern in Switzerland, which was re-staged for the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2010.[6]

References

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  1. ^ http://www.roland-petit.fr/index.php?p=chore&pc=3 Roland Petit: Chorégraphie
  2. ^ Cristina San José (13 October 2010). "Carmen es fresca y actual, derrocha carácter y fuerza". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 January 2012.
  3. ^ Carmen de Ramón Oller
  4. ^ Carmen, The Passion
  5. ^ EFE, Reguetoneros presentan el musical "Flow," adaptación moderna de la ópera "Carmen", 16 September 2009. Accessed 12 October 2009.
  6. ^ Carmen