The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 4 September 2003
- ISBN 9780521646833
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages522 pages
- Size 247x175x27 mm
- Weight 881 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 29 b/w illus. 20 tables 46 music examples 0
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A fascinating and accessible exploration of the world of grand opera, first published in 2003.
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This 2003 Companion is a fascinating and accessible exploration of the world of grand opera. Through this volume a team of scholars and writers on opera examine those important Romantic operas which embraced the Shakespearean sweep of tragedy, history, love in time of conflict, and the struggle for national self-determination. Rival nations, rival religions and violent resolutions are common elements, with various social or political groups represented in the form of operatic choruses. The book traces the origins and development of a style created during an increasingly technical age, which exploited the world-renowned skills of Parisian stage-designers, artists, and dancers as well as singers. It analyses in detail the grand operas by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer and Hal&&&233;vy, discusses grand opera in Russia and Germany, and also in the Czech lands, Italy, Britain and the Americas. The volume also includes an essay by the renowned opera director David Pountney.
'... contains more information about its subject than any previous publication in English. For the serious lover of opera, as well as for the cultural historian, this is not only an impressive collection but one that will be dipped into for many years.' Contemporary Review
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction David Charlton; Part I. The Resourcing of Grand Opera: 2. The 'machine' and the State Herv&&&233; Lacombe; 3. Fictions and librettos Nicholas White; 4. The spectacle of the past in grand opera Simon Williams; 5. The chorus James Parakilas; 6. Dance and dancers Marian Smith; 7. Roles, reputations, shadows: singers at the Op&&&233;ra, 1828-49 Mary Ann Smart; Part II. Revaluation and the Twenty-first Century: 8. Directing grand opera: Rienzi and Guillaume Tell at the Vienna State Opera David Pountney; Part III. Grand Operas for Paris: 9. La Muette and her context Sarah Hibberd; 10. Scribe and Auber: constructing grand opera Herbert Schneider; 11. Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable and Les Huguenots Matthias Brzoska; 12. Meyerbeer: Le Proph&&&232;te and L'Africaine John H. Roberts; 13. The grand operas of Fromental Hal&&&233;vy Diana R. Hallman; 14. From Rossini to Verdi M. Elizabeth C. Bartlett; 15. After 1850 at the Paris Op&&&233;ra: institution and repertory Steven Huebner; Part IV. Transformations of Grand Opera: 16. Richard Wagner and the legacy of French grand opera Thomas Grey; 17. Grand opera in Russia: fragments Marina Frolova-Walker; 18. Grand opera among the Czechs Jan Smaczny; 19. Italian opera Fiamma Nicolodi; 20. Grand opera in Britain and the Americas Sarah Hibberd.
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