Carmen Jones
Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre.
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The original text
Conceptually, it is Bizet's opera Carmen updated to a World War II-era, African-American setting.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1970: Presented by the EOAN Group in the Joseph Stone Auditorium in Athlone and at the Luxurama, conducted by Joseph Manca, directed by Stanley Waren, with Vera Gow.
Sources
Sjoerd Alkema. 2012. "Conductors of the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra, 1914-1965: a historical perspective". University of Cape Town. Unpublished PhD thesis.
Hilde Roos. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. Stellenbosch University.
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