Word: carmens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend, what do you think of the job this fellow Peter Brook has done with your Carmen...
Bizet: Excuse me, but I do not regard it as my Carmen...
...must confess, the production has some of the concentrated impact of my original tale of Carmen. You know, the qualities that Nietzsche, just the other day, was saying you had drawn from me-"the logic in passion, the shortest line, the harsh necessity...
...object to my own Carmen being emphasized...
Bizet: On the contrary. Much of what I can find good in this production derives from it. The creature that Carmen has become, for instance-still beguiling, but fiercer and more carnal. The deeper degradation of her simple soldier lover, Don José, through his murders of his officer and Carmen's husband, which do not occur in my work. Even the way Don José's rival, the bullfighter Escamillo, comes to grief instead of triumph...