Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xxii

Acknowledgements

pp xxiii-xxvi

Note on the Text

pp xxvii-xxviii

Part I - Preparing the Ground

pp 1-2

1 - Vitoria and Waterloo: French Music and the Peninsular Wars

pp 3-35

2 - Pictures and Jottings: Carmen and the Rise of Andalusian Tourism

pp 36-63

3 - Spain on the Paris Stage

pp 64-88

Part II - Fictions, Realities, Structures

pp 89-90

4 - From Novella to Libretto

pp 91-123

5 - Libretto into Opera

pp 124-160

6 - The Forgotten Englishman

pp 161-190

Part III - Characterisation, Music and the Staging of Place

pp 191-192

7 - Carmen’s Places

pp 193-218

8 - Carmen the Gypsy

pp 219-244

9 - In the Pit, On the Stage

pp 245-274

Select Bibliography

pp 275-288

Index

pp 289-296

Plate Section

pp 297-312