Description |
xxviii, 537 pages : illustraiton, music ; 25 cm. |
Series |
Ashgate library of essays in opera studies ; [v. 4]
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Ashgate library of essays in opera studies ; v. 4.
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Note |
Essays and articles reprinted from a variety of sources. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxviii) and index. |
Contents |
pt. I. Contexts -- Some difficulties in the historiography of Italian opera / Fabrizio Della Seta -- Metaphors for Meyerbeer / Cormac Newark -- Italian romanticism and Italian opera : an essay in their affinities / Gary Tomlinson -- Verismo : origin, corruption and redemption of an operatic term / Andreas Giger -- Felice Romani, librettist by trade / Alessandro Roccatagliati -- Frederick Gye and "the dreadful business of opera management" / Gabriella Dideriksen and Matthew Ringel -- Opera audiences in Paris 1830-1870 / Steven Huebner -- Verdian opera burlesqued : a glimpse into mid-Victorian theatrical culture / Roberta Montemorra Marvin -- -- pt. II. Composition and analysis -- History and works that have no history : reviving Rossini's Neapolitan operas / Philip Gossett -- La solita forma and "the uses of convention" / Harold S. Powers -- A key for Chi? : tonal areas in Puccini / Roger Parker and Allan W. Atlas -- Tristan in the composition of Pelléas / Carolyn Abbate -- -- pt. III. Criticism -- Dormez donc, mes chers amours : Hérold's La somnambule (1827) and dream phenomena on the Parisian lyric stage / Sarah Hibberd -- "TB sheets" : love and disease in La traviata / Arthur Groos -- Masked balls / Ralph Hexter -- Return of the repressed : the prima donna from Hoffmann's Tales to Offenbach's Contes / Heather Hadlock -- Smyth the anarchist : fin-de-siècle radicalism in The wreckers / Suzanne B. Robinson -- -- pt. IV. Performance -- Knowing the score : Italian opera as work and play / Philip Gossett -- Ornamenting Verdi's arias : the continuity of a tradition / David Lawton -- "La cantate delle passioni" : Giuditta Pasta and the idea of operatic performance / Susan B. Rutherford -- The sea and the stars and the wastes of the desert / Roger Parker. |
Subject |
Opera -- Italy -- 19th century.
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Opera. |
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Italy. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
Subject |
Opera -- France -- 19th century.
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France. |
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Opera -- England -- 19th century.
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England. |
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Opera -- America -- 19th century.
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America. |
Added Author |
Huebner, Steven.
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ISBN |
9780754628996 hardback |
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075462899X hardback |
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