The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera
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- Editor: David Charlton, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Date Published: September 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521646833
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A team of scholars and writers examines important Romantic operas and traces the origins and development of a style created during an increasingly technical age. The volume analyzes grand operas by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer and Halévy and discusses grand opera in Russia and Germany, and the Czechoslovakian territories, Italy, Britain and the Americas. The volume includes an essay by the renowned opera director David Pountney.
Read more- Accessible introduction to the world of grand opera and its frequently performed works such as Guillaume Tell
- Also offers insights into those less-performed but important grand operas such as Rienzi and Les Huguenots, among others
- The perfect introduction for opera enthusiasts and students
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"[A] valuable addition to the 'Cambridge Companions to Music' series.... Highly recommended." Choice
See more reviews"This book is essential for those interested in nineteenth -century opera - as well as the culture of the period - and those interested in this music should not miss it." Opera Today.com
"Provides unique insights..." --Opera Journal
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- Date Published: September 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521646833
- length: 522 pages
- dimensions: 247 x 175 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.881kg
- contains: 29 b/w illus. 20 tables 46 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction David Charlton
Part I. The Resourcing of Grand Opera:
2. The 'machine' and the State Hervé Lacombe
3. Fictions and librettos Nicholas White
4. The spectacle of the past in grand opera Simon Williams
5. The chorus James Parakilas
6. Dance and dancers Marian Smith
7. Roles, reputations, shadows: singers at the Opéra, 1828–49 Mary Ann Smart
Part II. Revaluation and the Twenty-first Century:
8. Directing grand opera: Rienzi and Guillaume Tell at the Vienna State Opera David Pountney
Part III. Grand Operas for Paris:
9. La Muette and her context Sarah Hibberd
10. Scribe and Auber: constructing grand opera Herbert Schneider
11. Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable and Les Huguenots Matthias Brzoska
12. Meyerbeer: Le Prophète and L'Africaine John H. Roberts
13. The grand operas of Fromental Halévy Diana R. Hallman
14. From Rossini to Verdi M. Elizabeth C. Bartlett
15. After 1850 at the Paris Opéra: institution and repertory Steven Huebner
Part IV. Transformations of Grand Opera:
16. Richard Wagner and the legacy of French grand opera Thomas Grey
17. Grand opera in Russia: fragments Marina Frolova-Walker
18. Grand opera among the Czechs Jan Smaczny
19. Italian opera Fiamma Nicolodi
20. Grand opera in Britain and the Americas Sarah Hibberd.
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