| Description |
xxi, 496 pages : illustration, music ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to music
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Cambridge companions to music.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 470-475) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The resourcing of grand opera. The 'machine' and the state / Hervé Lacombe -- Fictions and librettos / Nicholas White -- The spectacle of the past in grand opera / Simon Williams -- The chorus / James Parakilas -- Dance and dancers / Marian Smith -- Roles, reputations, shadows : singers at the Opéra, 1828-1849 / Mary Ann Smart. |
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pt. 2. Revaluation and the twenty-first century. Directing grand opera : Rienzi and Guillaume Tell at the Vienna State Opera / David Pountney. |
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pt. 3. Grand operas for Paris. La Muette and her context / Sarah Hibberd -- Scribe and Auber : constructing grand opera / Herbert Schneider -- Meyerbeer : Robert le diable and Les huguenots / Matthias Brzoska -- Meyerbeer : Le prophète and L'africaine / John H. Roberts -- The grand operas of Fromental Halévy / Diana R. Hallman -- From Rossini to Verdi / M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet -- After 1850 at the Paris Opéra : institution and repertory / Steven Huebner. |
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pt. 4. Transformations of grand opera. Richard Wagner and the legacy of French grand opera / Thomas Grey -- Grand opera in Russia : fragments of an unwritten history / Marina Frolova-Walker -- Grand opera among the Czechs / Jan Smaczny -- Italian opera / Fiamma Nicolodi -- Grand opera in Britain and the Americas / Sarah Hibberd. |
| Subject |
Opera.
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Opera. |
| Added Author |
Charlton, David, 1946-
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| ISBN |
0521641187 |
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0521646839 paperback |
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