Outputs (13)

Poetry and Silence in Post-Civil War Spain: Carmen Conde, Lucía Sánchez Saornil and Pilar de Valderrama (2015)
Book Chapter
Andrews, J. (2015). Poetry and Silence in Post-Civil War Spain: Carmen Conde, Lucía Sánchez Saornil and Pilar de Valderrama. In The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War 1936-2016 (40-59). Berghahn Books

This chapter looks at three women poets writing during the Spanish Civil War and afterwards - two supporters of the Republican government, one a supporter of the Franco regime, all three condemned in some way to post-war silence and circumspection.

Teresa Berganza's Reappropriation of Carmen (2014)
Journal Article
Andrews, J. (2014). Teresa Berganza's Reappropriation of Carmen. Journal of Romance Studies, 14(1), 19–39. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.14.1.19

This article analyses the approach of the distinguished Spanish mezzo-soprano, Teresa Berganza, to the role of Carmen since her debut in the role at the Edinburgh Festival in August 1977. Over the past thirty years Berganza, as a singer and a teacher... Read More about Teresa Berganza's Reappropriation of Carmen.

Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic (2007)
Journal Article
Andrews, J. (2007). Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic. Modern Language Review, 102(1),

Meyerbeer's grand opera L'Africaine (1865) tells the story of the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's triumphant journey back from the east African coast and his love for an African slave. It raises questions relating to the repres... Read More about Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine": French grand opera and the Iberian exotic.