Grand Opera Outside Paris: Opera on the Move in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Contents

• Introduction Jens Hesselager
• Part 1 - Places
• 1. Parisian Grand Opera at the Basel Theater auf dem Bloemlein: Traces of Transnational Circulation, Translation and Reception Laura Moeckli
• 2. Grand Opera in Nineteenth-Century Stockholm: Court Celebrations and Bourgeois Entertainment Karin Hallgren
• Part 2 - Works
• 3. Cockneys in a Fever: 'Gustave' in London, 1833 Sarah Hibberd
• 4. Masking the Masked Ball: Auber's 'Gustav III' as 'Die Ballnacht' at the Weimar Court Theatre, 1836 Carolin Bahr
• 5. Halevy's La Juive in Stockholm, 1866 Owe Ander
• Part 3 - Characters
• 6. Sympathy for the Devil? Bertram ( Robert le diable ) in Copenhagen, 1833 Jens Hesselager
• 7. Fenella ('La Muette de Portici') and Valentine ('Les Huguenots') as Symbols of National Identity in Helsinki, 1877 Ulla-Britta Broman-Kananen
• 8. Staging Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: Wainoe Sola's Eleazar at the Finnish Opera, 1925 Anne Kauppala
• Part 4 - Responses 9 In Search of the National: Nineteenth-Century Portuguese Composers and their First Approaches to Grand Opera Luisa Cymbron
• 10. Conflicting Ethnicities on the Russian Imperial Stage: The Case of Otto Dutsch's 'The Croatian Girl' Emanuele Bonomi
• 11. Meyerbeer on the 'Zarzuela' Stage: El duo de 'La Africana' by Manuel Fernandez Caballero Carlos Maria Solare