| Description |
xv, 413 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
"The works of Julian Rushton"--pages 385-391. |
| Contents |
I. Nationalism, cosmopolitanism and national opera. "Studying a little of the French air" : Louis Grabu's Albion and Albanius and the dramatic operas of Henry Purcell / Bryan White -- Mendelssohn's Die Hochzeit des Camacho : an unfulfilled vision for German opera / Clive Brown -- Funding grand opera in regional France : ideologies of the mid-nineteenth century / Katharine Ellis -- Stanford's and Le Fanu's Shamus O'Brien : Protestant constructions of Irish nationalism in late Victorian England / David Cooper -- Janáček, Nejedlý and the future of Czech national opera / John Tyrrell -- "As for opera I am bewildered" : Gustav Holst on the fringe of European opera / Richard Greene -- -- II. Opera, class and the politics of enlightenment. The Sadler's Wells dialogues of Charles Dibdin / Peter Holman -- Nobility in Mozart's operas / Mary Hunter -- New light and the man of might : revisiting early interpretations of Die Zauberflöte / Rachel Cowgill -- The Victorian Violetta : the social messages of Verdi's La traviata / Roberta Montemorra Marvin -- Carl Nielsen's carnival : time, space and the politics of identity in Maskarade / Daniel M. Grimley -- -- III. Opera and otherness. Beyond the exotic : how "Eastern" is Aida? / Ralph P. Locke -- Beyond Orientalism : the international rise of Japan and the revisions to Madama Butterfly / Domingos de Mascarenhas -- Opera as poetry : Bizet's Djamileh and the ironies of Orientalism / David Charlton -- Rimsky-Korsakov, Pan voyevoda and the Polish question : exposing the "Occidentalist irony" / Stephen Muir -- Modernism's distanced sound : a British approach to Schreker and others / Peter Franklin -- Being-with Grimes : the problem of others in Britten's first opera / J.P.E. Harper-Scott. |
| Subject |
Ideology in art.
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Ideology in art. |
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Opera -- Political aspects -- Europe.
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Opera -- Political aspects. |
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Europe. |
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Opera. |
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Art and opera -- Europe.
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Art and opera. |
| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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| Added Author |
Cowgill, Rachel.
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Cooper, David, 1956-
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Brown, Clive, 1947-
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Rushton, Julian.
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| ISBN |
9781843835677 hardback |
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1843835673 hardback |
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