National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume I: Italy, France, England and the Americas
- Editor: Huebner, Steven
National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume I: Italy, France, England and the Americas
- Editor: Huebner, Steven
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This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: Places-essays centering on contexts for operatic culture; Genres and Styles-studies dealing with the question of how operas in this period were put together; Critical Studies of individual works, exemplifying particular critical trends; and Performance.
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 'Pelléas', Carolyn Abbate. Part III Criticism: 'Dormez donc, mes chers amours': Hérold'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-siècle 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.
