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Interview with Maria Ewing
13/10/2000
Discusses Carmen's popularity, the characters of Carmen and Don Jose, love, morality, music, Bizet
Interview with Peter Hall
31/08/2000
Peter Hall discusses the character of Carmen, the structure and scale of the opera, the demands of the role, the score and dialogue.
Interview with Julia Migenes
2000
Interview with soprano Julia Migenes about Carmen's popularity with audiences, the characters of Carmen and Don Jose, gendered relationships, the 1984 film Carmen, Bizet's music and story
Matthew Bourne's The Car Man
21/09/2000
Daytime exterior shots of The Old Vic, with publicity for Matthew Bourne's The Car Man. Interview with Matthew Bourne, talking about setting the show in an Italian American community, its relationship...
Interview with Susan McClary
31/08/2000
Interview with musicologist Susan McClary, discussing Carmen, Bizet's context, Orientalism, the Opera Comique, initial critical reception, representations of gender, Prosper Merimee's original story, ...
Interview with Paul Gambaccini
13/10/2000
Paul Gambaccini discusses the universality of Carmen's story and music, Cecil B DeMille and Ernst Lubitsch's silent productions of Carmen, Hammerstein's Carmen Jones, Charles Vidor's The Loves of Carm...
Interview with Jonathan Miller
13/10/2000
Discusses his production of Carmen, taking inspiration from Cartier Bresson's inter-war photographs of Seville, Carmen as a working class tragedy, Orientalist fantasies about women, Bizet's intentions...