Grand opera outside Paris : opera on the move in nineteenth-century Europe / edited by Jens Hesselager.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hesselager, Jens, editor.

Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.

Series:

Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera--19th century.

Opera.

Physical Description:

xiv, 236 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abindon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Contents:

Parisian grand opera at the Basel Theater auf dem Blömlein: traces of transnational circulation, translation and reception / Laura Moeckli

Grand opera in nineteenth-century Stockholm: court celebrations and bourgeois entertainment / Karin Hallgren

Cockneys in a fever: Gustave in London, 1833 / Sarah Hibberd

Masking the masked ball: Auber's Gustave III as Die Ballnacht at the Weimar court theatre, 1836 / Carolin Hauck

Halévy's La juive in Stockholm, 1866 / Owe Ander

Sympathy for the devil?: Bertram (Robert de diable) in Copenhagen, 1833 / Jens Hesselager

Fenella (La muette de Portici) and Valentine (Les huguenots) as symbols of national identity in Helsinki, 1877 / Ulla-Britta Broman-Kananen

Staging anti-Semitic stereotypes: Wäinö Sola's Eléazar at the Finnish opera, 1925 / Anne Kauppala

In search of the national: nineteenth-century Portuguese composers and their first approaches to grand opera / Luisa Cymbron

Conflicting ethnicities on the Russian imperial stage: the case of Otto Dütsch's The Croatian girl / Emanuele Bonomi

Meyerbeer on the zarzuela stage: El dúo de "La Africana" by Manuel Fernández Caballero / Carlos María Solare.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.

ISBN:

9781138202016

1138202010

OCLC:

992989739

Publisher Number:

99976377794