Music, theater, and cultural transfer : Paris, 1830-1914
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Music, theater, and cultural transfer : Paris, 1830-1914
The University of Chicago Press, c2009
- : cloth
Available at 8 libraries
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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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music that emerged from this period helped make Paris, as Walter Benjamin put it, the 'capital of the nineteenth century'. The fullest account available of this artistic ferment and its international impact, "Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer" explores the diverse institutions that shaped Parisian music and extended its influence across Europe, the Americas, and Australia. The contributors to this volume, who work in fields ranging from literature to theater to musicology, focus on the city's musical theater scene as a whole rather than on individual theaters or repertories. Their broad range enables their collective examination of the ways in which all aspects of performance and reception were affected by the transfer of works, performers, and management models from one environment to another. By focusing on this interplay between institutions and individuals, the authors illuminate the tension between institutional conventions and artistic creation during the heady period when Parisian stage music reached its zenith.
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