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Giacomo Meyerbeer and music drama in nineteenth-century Paris
xxi, 433 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-412) and index.