The Cambridge companion to grand opera / edited by David Charlton. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to grand opera / edited by David Charlton. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to grand opera / edited by David Charlton. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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1 online resource (xxi, 496 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
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...
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...
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...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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England
Date Published
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...
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The Cambridge companion to grand opera / edited by David Charlton. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge companions online.
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Cambridge companions to music
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 470-475) and index.
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English
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1-139-00212-0
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782.1
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991023962530602626
