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Understanding the Music: Carmen
Sunday, March 17 at 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
FreeUnderstanding the Music: Carmen
Sunday, March 17 1:30 pm (doors open at 1:00 pm)
Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Classroom
85 Israel Asper Way
Presenter: Dr. Colette Simonot, Associate Professor of Musicology, Desautels Faculty of Music, University of Manitoba
In this presentation, Dr. Simonot will examine how Georges Bizet used music not only to evoke the Spanish setting of this opera, but also to characterize Carmen as an “exotic outsider.” Issues of opera genre as they impacted the history of this work in the late 19th century will also be explored.
Registration for this event is free.
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Phone: 204-942-7470
Email: smiller@mbopera.ca
