Giacomo Meyerbeer and music drama in nineteenth-century Paris /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Everist, Mark
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot [England] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, [2005]
Series:	Collected studies.
Subjects:	Opera > France > Paris > 19th century > History and criticism. Meyerbeer, Giacomo, > 1791-1864. > Operas.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

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.