This story is inspired by actual events. It is the story of a mother, blessed with three beautiful teenage daughters, exploiting their youth and beauty to enrich herself by introducing them to the world of bootlegging, and prostitution before they had even reached puberty, and how one daughter, Carmen the eldest, endowed with movie star beauty, decided she had had enough. And so this powerful story of greed, lust, remorse and death cries out to be told.

A word-by-word translation in English and IPA, and annotated guides to the dialogue and recitative versions of the opera, this book is a complete reference for anyone studying or producing Bizet's Carmen. It provides all the material necessary for practical use by singers, conductors, coaches, stage directors, opera producers, students and teachers. - from the publisher's notes.

Believing that peace has returned to sleepy Blue Mesa after dispatching the vampire members of the The Band, Megan and Iris find their lives disrupted again when a group of the undead invades the beach town of Turo. Original.

A transnational history of the performance, reception, translation, adaptation and appropriation of Bizet's Carmen from 1875 to 1945. This volume explores how Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe, and how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse contexts.