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Revision as of 12:54, 16 June 2025
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, conducted by Joseph Manca, directed by Stanley Waren.
Sources
Sjoerd Alkema. 2012. "Conductors of the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra, 1914-1965: a historical perspective". University of Cape Town. Unpublished PhD thesis.
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