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Ralph P. Locke, Emeritus Professor of Musicology, University of Rochester

“Hugh Macdonald, the intrepid editor-in-chief of the New Berlioz Edition, has now turned his attention to six nearly forgotten operas by the composer of Carmen and The Pearl Fishers, Georges Bizet. The editions are at once scrupulous in their scholarship and ready for use in the opera house. !”

Charles MacKay, former General Director Santa Fe Opera and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.

“Producers, artists and audiences alike benefit immeasurably from the availability of stylish critical editions that illuminate unfamiliar operas while minimizing the risks and complexities of assembling those productions. Knowing that Hugh Macdonald’s new editions of Bizet’s ‘other’ operas will soon be available is a welcome gift to opera producers worldwide.”

“No one has done more for the recognition, editing and analysis of French opera, especially Berlioz, than Hugh Macdonald. And now his recent work into another French great is rectifying years of neglect and scandalous editing. Bizet gave birth to one of the most popular operas of all time but Macdonald’s new brilliant research and editing will now raise the awareness and hopefully the performance of his other worthy operas.”

John Nelson: Honorary Music Director, Orchestre de chambre de Paris

“At last these lovely scores are being made available to us all! The composer of Carmen deserves nothing less!”

Sir Mark Elder, Music Director, the Hallé Orchestra

BIZET’S OTHER OPERAS

Fishergate Music is publishing a series of Bizet operas in full score under the general title Bizet’s Other Operas in order

to fill a gap in the accessibility of his music when several editions of both Les Pêcheurs de perles and Carmen are readily available.

The series will consist of five volumes as follows:

1 Djamileh

2 Don Procopio

3 La Jolie Fille de Perth

4 La Maison du Docteur and Le Docteur Miracle

5 Ivan IV

edited byHugh Macdonald

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It has long been known that although Bizet’s music was little recognized in his lifetime, the worldwide success of Carmen created

a demand that was met by his publisher Choudens with a great number of scores and arrangements, few of which represented the music as the composer had intended it. Of the six operas in our series, only Djamileh and La Jolie Fille de Perth were published in Bizet’s lifetime. The remainder were published posthumously in corrupt versions that seriously distort the originals. For many years the performance of these operas has been hindered by the lack of reliable material based on original sources.

The editor of these volumes, Hugh Macdonald, is a well known scholar in the field of French music, having been General Editor of the New Berlioz Edition, completed in 2006, and editor of several volumes in Bärenreiter’s series L’Opéra Français. He created the online Bizet Catalogue in 2014, and his study of Saint-Saëns’s operas Saint-Saëns and the Stage appeared in 2019.

The volumes are printed on high-quality paper, 22.5 x 32 cm, in a stiff paper binding, with full critical apparatus.

Performance material is available on hire.

The first volume to be published, Djamileh, is available now at a price of £95. We accept payment in £,$,€.

Further details of the series can be obtained from our website at www.fishergatemusic.co.uk

To purchase please go to ‘The Operas’ page.

Please contact us with any enquiries by phone on

+44 (0) 1603 762477

or by email enquiries@fishergatemusic.co.uk

BIZET’S OTHER OPERAS

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