National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume I: Italy, France, England and the Americas

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Part I Contexts: Some difficulties in the historiography of Italian opera, Fabrizio Della Seta
• Metaphors for Meyerbeer, Cormac Newark
• Italian romanticism and Italian opera: an essay in their affinities, Gary Tomlinson
• Verismo: origin, corruption and redemption of an operatic term, Andreas Giger
• Felice Romani, librettist by trade, Alessandro Roccatagliati
• Frederick Gye and 'the dreadful business of opera management', Gabriella Dideriksen and Matthew Ringel
• Opera audiences in Paris 1830-1870, Steven Huebner
• Verdian opera burlesqued: a glimpse into mid-Victorian theatrical culture, Roberta Montemorra Marvin. Part II Composition and Analysis: History and works that have no history: reviving Rossini's Neapolitan operas, Philip Gossett
• 'La solita forma and 'the uses of convention"', Harold S. Powers
• A key for chi? Tonal areas in Puccini, Roger Parker and Allan W. Atlas
• 'Tristan' in the composition of 'Pelleas', Carolyn Abbate. Part III Criticism: 'Dormez donc, mes chers amours': Herold's La Somnambule (1827) and dream phenomena on the Parisian lyric stage, Sarah Hibberd
• 'TB sheets': love and disease in La Traviata, Arthur Groos
• Masked balls, Ralph Hexter
• Return of the repressed: the prima donna from Hoffmann's Tales to Offenbach's Contes, Heather Hadlock
• Smyth the anarchist: fin-de-siecle radicalism in The Wreckers, Suzanne B. Robinson. Part IV Performance: Knowing the score: Italian opera as work and play, Philip Gossett
• Ornamenting Verdi's arias: the continuity of a tradition, David Lawton
• 'La cantate delle passioni:' Giuditta Pasta and the idea of operatic performance, Susan B. Rutherford
• The sea and the stars and the wastes of the desert, Roger Parker
• Name Index.