Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Contents

• Introduction: Opera Outside the Box
• Roberta Montemorra Marvin
• Chapter 1. Of Shreds and Patches: Operatic Commonplaces in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Edward Jacobson
• Chapter 2. Perceptions of Verdi in Victorian Britain
• Roberta Montemorra Marvin
• Chapter 3. Opera and British Choral Culture: Verdi's Requiem in London
• Chloe Valenti
• Chapter 4. "A Carnival or a Sacrament, a Fair or a Funeral:" The Prima Donna at the British Musical Festival, 1810-1834
• Charles Edward McGuire
• Chapter 5. Adelaide Kemble and Opera Arias in Concert and Drawing Rooms
• Matildie Wium
• Chapter 6. Marie Wilton, La! Sonnambula! and the Opening of the Prince of Wales's Theatre in 1865
• Valeria De Lucca
• Chapter 7. Friends and Visitors: Chamber Music, Concert Aesthetics, and the Conundrum of Operatic Song
• Christina Bashford
• Epilogue
• Roger Parker