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Subject(s)

• Opera [Browse]

Related name

• Charlton, David, 1946- [Browse]

Series

Cambridge companions to music [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 470-475) and index.

Contents

• pt. 1. The resourcing of grand operas. The 'machine' and the state / Herve ́Lacombe
• Fictions and librettos / Nicholas White
• The spectacle of the past in grand opera / Simon Williams
• The chorus / James Parakilas
• Dance and dancers / Marian Smith
• Roles, reputations, shadows : singers at the Opeŕa, 1828-1849 / Mary Ann Smart.
• pt. 2. Revaluation and the twenty-first century. Directing grand opera : Rienzi and Guillaume Tell at the Vienna State Opera / David Pountney.
• pt. 3. Grand opera for Paris. La Muette and her context / Sarah Hibberd
• Scribe and Auber: constructing grand opera / Herbert Schneider
• Meyerbeer: Robert le diable and Les Huguenots / Matthias Brzoska
• Meyerbeer: Le prophète and L'Africaine / John H. Roberts
• The grand operas of Fromental Halévy / Diana R. Hallman
• From Rossini to Verdi / M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet
• After 1850 at the Paris Opéra: institution and repertory / Steven Huebner.
• pt. 4. Transformations of grand opera. Richard Wagner and the legacy of French grand opera / Thomas Grey
• Grand opera in Russia : fragments of an unwritten history / Marina Frolova-Walker
• Grand opera among the Czechs / Jan Smaczny
• Italian opera / Fiamma Nicolodi
• Grand opera in Britain and the Americas / Sarah Hibberd.

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ISBN

• 0521641187
• 0521646839 (pb.)

LCCN

2002074190

OCLC

50285154

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