Opera in Paris from the empire to the commune / Mark Everist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Everist, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera--France--Paris--19th century.

Opera.

France--Paris.

Physical Description:

xiii, 473 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Contents:

Ouverture: power, licence and technology. The music of power : Parisian opera and the politics of genre, 1806-1864 ; Grand opéra

petit opéra : Parisian opera and ballet from the Restoration to the Second Empire ; Jacques Offenbach : the music of the past and the image of the present ; The operas of François-Auguste Gevaert : the tour d'horizon ; Between opéra-comique and opéra-national : Scribe, Vaëz and Boisselot c1850

Premier entr'acte : les ultramontains. Beethoven and Rossini : opera and concert at the end of the Restoration ; "Il n'y a qu'un Paris au monde, et j'y reviendrai planter mon drapeau!" : Rossini's second grand opéra ; A transalpine comedy : L'elisir d'amore and cultural transfer ; Partners in rhyme : Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaëz, and foreign opera in Paris during the July Monarchy

Second entr'acte : la musique allemande.Castil-Blaze and the reception of Weber in Paris, 1824-1857 ; Gluck, politics and the Second Empire press ; Wagner and Paris : the case of Rienzi (1869).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138065161

1138065161

OCLC:

1029787977