A team of scholars and writers examines important Romantic operas and traces the origins and development of a style created during an increasingly technical age. The volume analyzes grand operas by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer and Halé vy and discusses grand opera in Russia and Germany, and the Czechoslovakian territories, Italy, Britain and the Americas. The volume includes an essay by the renowned opera director David Pountney.
A team of scholars and writers examines important Romantic operas and traces the origins and development of a style created during an increasingly technical age. The volume analyzes grand operas by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer and Halé vy and discusses grand opera in Russia and Germany, and the Czechoslovakian territories, Italy, Britain and the Americas. The volume includes an essay by the renowned opera director David Pountney.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
David Charlton is Professor of Music History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Grétry and the Growth of Opéra-Comique (Cambridge, 1986), E. T. A. Hoffman''s Musical Writings: Kreisleriana; The Poet and the Composer; Music Criticism (Cambridge, 1989) and most recently, French Opera 1730-1830 (2000).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction David Charlton Part I. The Resourcing of Grand Opera: 2. The 'machine' and the State Hervé Lacombe 3. Fictions and librettos Nicholas White 4. The spectacle of the past in grand opera Simon Williams 5. The chorus James Parakilas 6. Dance and dancers Marian Smith 7. Roles, reputations, shadows: singers at the Opéra, 1828-49 Mary Ann Smart Part II. Revaluation and the Twenty-first Century: 8. Directing grand opera: Rienzi and Guillaume Tell at the Vienna State Opera David Pountney Part III. Grand Operas for Paris: 9. La Muette and her context Sarah Hibberd 10. Scribe and Auber: constructing grand opera Herbert Schneider 11. Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable and Les Huguenots Matthias Brzoska 12. Meyerbeer: Le Prophète and L'Africaine John H. Roberts 13. The grand operas of Fromental Halévy Diana R. Hallman 14. From Rossini to Verdi M. Elizabeth C. Bartlett 15. After 1850 at the Paris Opéra: institution and repertory Steven Huebner Part IV. Transformations of Grand Opera: 16. Richard Wagner and the legacy of French grand opera Thomas Grey 17. Grand opera in Russia: fragments Marina Frolova-Walker 18. Grand opera among the Czechs Jan Smaczny 19. Italian opera Fiamma Nicolodi 20. Grand opera in Britain and the Americas Sarah Hibberd.
1. Introduction David Charlton Part I. The Resourcing of Grand Opera: 2. The 'machine' and the State Hervé Lacombe 3. Fictions and librettos Nicholas White 4. The spectacle of the past in grand opera Simon Williams 5. The chorus James Parakilas 6. Dance and dancers Marian Smith 7. Roles, reputations, shadows: singers at the Opéra, 1828-49 Mary Ann Smart Part II. Revaluation and the Twenty-first Century: 8. Directing grand opera: Rienzi and Guillaume Tell at the Vienna State Opera David Pountney Part III. Grand Operas for Paris: 9. La Muette and her context Sarah Hibberd 10. Scribe and Auber: constructing grand opera Herbert Schneider 11. Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable and Les Huguenots Matthias Brzoska 12. Meyerbeer: Le Prophète and L'Africaine John H. Roberts 13. The grand operas of Fromental Halévy Diana R. Hallman 14. From Rossini to Verdi M. Elizabeth C. Bartlett 15. After 1850 at the Paris Opéra: institution and repertory Steven Huebner Part IV. Transformations of Grand Opera: 16. Richard Wagner and the legacy of French grand opera Thomas Grey 17. Grand opera in Russia: fragments Marina Frolova-Walker 18. Grand opera among the Czechs Jan Smaczny 19. Italian opera Fiamma Nicolodi 20. Grand opera in Britain and the Americas Sarah Hibberd.
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