This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. David Charlton considers the comedic and musical nature of eighteenth-century popular French opera, exploring topics including performance practices, singers, audience experiences and theatre staging.
This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. David Charlton considers the comedic and musical nature of eighteenth-century popular French opera, exploring topics including performance practices, singers, audience experiences and theatre staging.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
David Charlton is Emeritus Professor of Music History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published on topics in opera between Bizet and Purcell. He is author of Grétry and the Growth of Opera-Comique (Cambridge University Press, 1986) and Opera in the Age of Rousseau (Cambridge University Press, 2012), editor of The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and also of The Music of Simon Holt (The Boydell Press, 2017).
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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