Giacomo Meyerbeer and Music Drama in Nineteenth-Century Paris
- Author: Everist, Mark
The writings contained in this volume are truly representative of a scholar who has made a lasting impression on the field of French opera in the mid-nineteenth century —
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- Parisian music drama, 1806-64: social structures and artistic contexts
- Lindoro in Lyon: Rossini's Le barbier de Seville
- Gluck, Berlioz and Castil-Blaze: the poetics and reception of French opera
- Meyerbeer's Margherita d'Anjou
- Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto: melodrame, opera, orientalism
- Giacomo Meyerbeer, the TheActre Royal de l'Odeon and music drama in Restoration Paris
- The Name of the Rose: Meyerbeer's opera comique, Robert le Diable
- Fromental Halevy: from opera comique to grand opera
- Translating Weber's Euryanthe: German Romanticism at the dawn of French grand opera
- 'Tutti i francesi erano diventati matti': Bellini and the Duet for Two Basses
- Donizetti and Wagner: opera de genre at the TheActre de la Renaissance
- 'Der Lieblingswunsch meines Lebens': contexts and continuity in Meyerbeer's operas comiques
- Bibliography
- Index.