Ariane & Bluebeard: From Fairy Tale to Comic Book Opera

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Ariane et Barbe-bleue: A Dramatic and Musical Overview, by Matthew Gordon Brown and Thomas Emil Homerin
• 2. The Genesis of Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, by Matthew Gordon Brown
• 3. Performing Ariane et Barbe-Bleue: From Premier to Orchestral Suite, by Matthew Gordon Brown
• 4. A Feminist Opera? Women's Rights and Women's Wrongs in Maurice Maeterlinck's and Paul Dukas' Ariane and Bluebeard, by Jean Elisabeth Pedersen
• 5. Maurice Maeterlinck and the Mystical Ariane, by Thomas Emil Homerin
• 6. Maeterlinck and Plato's Cave, by Nicholas Gresens
• 7. Ariane et Barbe-Bleue and the Legacy of Richard Wagner, by Matthew Gordon Brown
• 8. Singing Ariane: An Interview with Katherine Ciesinski, by Katherine Ciesinski and Matthew Gordon Brown
• 9. Bluebeard, or Female Curiosity? Not the Same Old Story, by Andrea G. Reithmayr
• 10. Reflections on Comic Book Opera: P. Craig Russell's Ariane and Bluebeard, by Thomas Emil Homerin
• 11. An Adaptation of an Adaptation: TableTopOpera's Live Production of Ariane and Bluebeard, by Matthew Gordon Brown
• Appendices
• Albert Flament, "'Ariane' dans les ruines de St-Wandrille," Femina 163 (1 November, 1907), 484- 85. English translation by Sebastien Cornut.
• Henri Duvernois, "Les femmes de Barbe-Bleue," Femina 153 (1 June, 1907), 246- 249. English translation by Sebastien Cornut.
• Lucien Fugere, "La vie du theatre," Musica 55 (April 1907), 53- 55. English translation by Sebastien Cornut.
• Paul Dukas, "Ariane et Barbe-Bleue," La Revue Musicale (numero special) (May-June, 1936), 4- 7. English translation by Timothy Scheie.
• Montrose J. Moses, "The Wife of Maurice Maeterlinck," Metropolitan Magazine 34 (March, 1912), 38- 52.
• Georgette Leblanc-Maeterlinck, "The Later Heroines of Maurice Maeterlinck," Fortnightly Review 93 (January 1910), 48- 56. English translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index