Music, theater, and cultural transfer : Paris, 1830-1914

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Music, theater, and cultural transfer : Paris, 1830-1914

edited by Annegret Fauser and Mark Everist

The University of Chicago Press, c2009

  • : cloth

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Rev. papers from the international symposium "The Institutions of Opera in Paris from the July Revolution to the Dreyfus Affair", held in Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C., Sept. 24-26, 2004

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • The company at the heart of the operatic institution : Chollet and the changing nature of Comic-Opera role types during the July Monarchy / Olivier Bara
  • Fromental Halévy within the Paris Opéra : composition and control / Diana R. Hallman
  • Systems failure in operatic Paris : the acid test of the Théâtre Lyrique / Katharine Ellis
  • Jacques Offenbach : the music of the past and the image of the present / Mark Everist
  • Carvalho and the Opéra-Comique : l'art de se hâter lentement / Lesley Wright
  • Finding a stage for French opera / David Grayson
  • Auber's Gustave III : history as opera / Sarah Hibberd
  • Analyzing mise-en-scène : Halévy's La juive at the Salle le Peletier / Arnold Jacobshagen
  • Lucia goes to Paris : a tale of three theaters / Rebecca Harris-Warrick
  • Cette musique sans tradition : Wagner's Tannhäuser and its French critics / Annegret Fauser
  • La sylphide and Les sylphides / Marian Smith
  • Questions of genre : Massenet's Les érinnyes at the Théâtre-National-Lyrique / Peter Lamothe
  • Carmen : couleur locale or the real thing? / Kerry Murphy
  • Spanish local color in Bizet's Carmen : unexplored borrowings and transformations / Ralph P. Locke
  • La princesse paysanne du Midi / Steven Huebner
  • A documentary overview of musical theaters in Paris, 1830 / Alicia C. Levin

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