Georges Bizet - Schwandt, Christoph
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Since the vibrant production of Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2010, interest has grown in the work's French composer, Georges Bizet. First published in 1991, Christoph Schwandt's biography of Georges Bizet is now widely recognized as the definitive work on the great composer. Drawing on recent research and revised and augmented for the 2011 edition, translated here into English by Cynthia Klohr, Schwandt cleans away the romantic misconceptions that have cluttered earlier assessments of Bizet's life and works.

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Since the vibrant production of Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2010, interest has grown in the work's French composer, Georges Bizet. First published in 1991, Christoph Schwandt's biography of Georges Bizet is now widely recognized as the definitive work on the great composer. Drawing on recent research and revised and augmented for the 2011 edition, translated here into English by Cynthia Klohr, Schwandt cleans away the romantic misconceptions that have cluttered earlier assessments of Bizet's life and works.
Autorenporträt
Christoph Schwandt has held managing positions at several theaters and at the Salzburg Festspiele. From 2002 to 2009 he served as drama director of the Cologne Opera. He has also written biographies of Guiseppe Verdi and Leos Janácek. Translator Cynthia Klohr teaches philosophy at universities in Karlsruhe, Germany. She has translated several books and essays in philosophy, psychology, the theory and history of science, and music. She is translator for Scarecrow Press of Hans Von Bulow's Letters to Johannes Brahms: A Research Edition (2011) and Hermann Levi: From Brahms to Wagner (2012).