| Description |
xxv, 433 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Variorum collected studies series
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Collected studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-412) and index. |
| Contents |
Parisian music drama, 1806-64 : social structures and artistic contexts -- Lindoro in Lyon : Rossini's Le barbier de Séville -- Gluck, Berlioz, and Castil-Blaze : the poetics and reception of French opera -- Meyerbeer's Margherita d'Anjou -- Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto : mélodrame, opera, orientalism -- Giacomo Meyerbeer, the Théâtre Royal de l'Odéon and music drama in restoration Paris -- The name of the rose : Meyerbeer's opéra comique, Robert le diable -- Fromental Halévy : from opéra comique to grand opéra -- Translating Weber's Euryanthe : German romanticism at the dawn of French grand opera -- "Tutti i francesi erano diventati matti" : Bellini and the duet for two basses -- Donizetti and Wagner : opéra de genre at the Théâtre de la Renaissance -- "Der Lieblingswunsch meines Lebens" : contexts and continuity in Meyerbeer's opéras comiques. |
| Subject |
Opera -- France -- Paris -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Opera. |
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France -- Paris. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864. Operas.
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| ISBN |
0860789152 alkaline paper |
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