The Nation's Image: French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art

Contents

• List of figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. La Muette de Portici and the new politics of opera
• 2. The politics of grand opera's rise and decline
• 3. Radicalization, repression, and opera: Meyerbeer's Le Prophete
• 4. Politicized attacks on grand opera and the genesis of alternative models
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index.