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An edition of The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera (2003)

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In this companion, a team of scholars and writers on opera examine those important Romantic operas that 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 Halevy, and discusses grand opera in Russia ,Germany, the Czech lands, Italy, Britain, and the Americas.

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Table of Contents

pt. 1. The resourcing of grand operas. The 'machine' and the state / Hervé 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 Opéra, 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 operas 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 470-475) and index.

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Cambridge, New York
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Cambridge companions to music

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ML1700 .C16 2003, ML1700.C16 2002

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xxi, 496 p. :
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496

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0521646839, 0521641187
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