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Author:   Mark Everist
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.860kg
ISBN:  

9781138375482

ISBN 10:   1138375489
Pages:   462
Publication Date:   27 September 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; 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; Bibliography; Index.

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’The writings contained in this volume are truly representative of a scholar who has made a lasting impression on the field of French opera in the mid-nineteenth century.’ Nineteenth-Century Music Review

'The writings contained in this volume are truly representative of a scholar who has made a lasting impression on the field of French opera in the mid-nineteenth century.' Nineteenth-Century Music Review

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Mark Everist is a Professor in the Department of Music, at the University of Southampton, UK.

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