Meyerbeer studies : a series of lectures, essays, and articles on the life and work of Giacomo Meyerbeer / Robert Ignatius Letellier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Letellier, Robert Ignatius.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.

Meyerbeer, Giacomo.

Physical Description:

238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2005]

Contents:

Music's great enigma : Giacomo Meyerbeer

Neglected master of grand opéra

History, myth, and music in a theme of exploration: some reflections on the musico-dramatic language of L'africaine

The thematic nexus of religion, power, politics, and love in the operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer

Meyerbeer and the comic spirit : miniature variations on grand themes

Che sarà sarà : the "star" of which dreams are made : Scribe and Meyerbeer's opéra comique, L'Étoile du Nord

The diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer's Briefwechsel und Tagebücher, vol. 5

Meyerbeer, Halévy and Auber : some perspectives on the world of mid-nineteenth-century French opera

Bellini and Meyerbeer : melodic structure and dramatic exigency

Hector Berlioz and Giacomo Meyerbeer : a complex friendship revisited.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

083864063X

OCLC:

56490868