Isango Ensemble. U-Carmen eKhayelitsha [film opera based on Bizet’s Carmen]

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Isango Ensemble. U-Carmen eKhayelitsha [film opera based on Bizet’s Carmen]. Directed by Mark Dornford-May. South Africa: Spier Films. 2003.

Read about it here: Viljoen, Santisa and Marita Wenzel. 2016. ‘The Same, Yet Different: Re-Encoding Identity in U-Carmen eKhayelitsha’. Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa 13(1/2), 53-70.

Davies, James and Lindiwe Dovey. 2010. ‘Bizet in Khayelitsha: U-Carmen eKhayelitsha as Audio-Visual Transculturation’. Journal of African Media Studies 2(1), 39-53.

André, Naomi. 2016. ‘Carmen in Africa: French Legacies and Global Citizenship’. The Opera Quarterly 32(1), 54-76.

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