Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France: Music and Entertainment before the Revolution

Contents

• 1. Introduction;
• 2. Music and spoken theatre;
• 3. Music in Gherardi's company;
• 4. Singing and acting at home;
• 5. Opéra-comique en vaudevilles;
• 6. Experiences of popular theatre;
• 7. Comic and serious themes;
• 8. Performance as history;
• 9. Musical expansion;
• 10. Italian inroads: the King's company;
• 11. Six methods of synthesis;
• 12. A 'Musico-dramatic art';
• 13. Conclusions.